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The Sound and The Fury

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Book
32
Narrator
16
Release Date
January 1, 2025
Duration
9 hours 39 minutes
Summary
NOBEL PRIZE WINNER • One of the greatest novels of the twentieth century. The Sound and The Fury is the story of a family of Southern aristocrats on the brink of personal and financial ruin.

Set in Jefferson, Mississippi, in the first third of the 20th century, the novel centers on the Compson family, former Southern aristocrats who are struggling to deal with the dissolution of their family and its reputation. Over the course of the 30 years or so relayed in the novel, the family falls into financial ruin, loses its religious faith and the respect of the town of Jefferson, and many of them die tragically.

The novel features some of the most memorable characters in literature, including beautiful, rebellious Caddy; Benjy, the manchild; neurotic, haunted Quentin; Jason, a brutal cynic; and Dilsey, their black servant. These troubled character’s voices and actions come together to create Faulkner’s masterpiece, thought to be one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century. It received popular acclaim shortly before Faulkner received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949.
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Profile Avatar Rondavooo Dec 2025

Amazing! This book was really difficult for me. I had no idea of what to expect, but Faulkner’s words were like birds, flying up and while trying to catch them, so many would escape, and I would have to reread lines- even whole chapters. I absolutely loved this book. It embedded itself into my brain, and even followed me into my dreams. The narrator was perfect. His accent was spot on for the time/place. I’ll be looking for more of his stuff, for sure.

Profile Avatar Mary F. Dec 2025

Beautiful writing. I enjoyed how the book unfolded through the perspective of the different characters. Even though they were from the South and the book takes place in the early 1900s, there were elements of these characters I see in people I have known in my life as well as people we see in our current politics

Profile Avatar RC K. Nov 2025

Not every novel, regardless of how revered it is, can resonate with everyone. This one did not resonate with me.

Profile Avatar H. Michael R. Dec 2025

It's a great but complicated book. The audio narrator does an an excellent job but it's always going to be hard to follow.

Profile Avatar Leonard N. Nov 2025

This was a terrible and uninteresting book, this book has no place to be called a classic.

Profile Avatar Anonymous May 2026

Difficult story.

Profile Avatar Ruud Haring Feb 2026

Like classical music of the same era (late 1920s), the literary style needs an education to appreciate it, I guess. I cannot but echo an early critic: the author spent a lot of craftsmanship on a story that is not very interesting, and on characters that are not very compelling. The narrator did his very best bringing out the various voices of the south.

The Sound and The Fury

The Sound and The Fury

Author: William Faulkner
Read by: Sean Pratt
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