The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner [0]
THE MARBLE FAUN (1924)
SOLDIER’S PAY (1926)
MOSQUITOES (1927)
SARTORIS (1929) [FLAGS IN THE DUST (1973)]
THE SOUND AND THE FURY (1929)
As I LAY DYING (1930)
SANCTUARY (1931)
THESE 13 (1931)
LIGHT IN AUGUST (1932)
A GREEN BOUGH (1933)
DOCTOR MARTINO and OTHER STORIES (1934)
PYLON (1935)
ABSALOM, ABSALOM! (1936)
THE UNVANQUISHED (1938)
THE WILD PALMS [IF I FORGET THEE, JERUSALEM] (1939)
THE HAMLET (1940)
GO DOWN, MOSES (1942)
INTRUDER IN THE DUST (1948)
KNIGHT’S GAMBIT (1949)
COLLECTED STORIES OF WILLIAM FAULKNER (1950)
NOTES ON A HORSETHIEF (1951)
REQUIEM FOR A NUN (1954)
A FABLE (1954)
BIG WOODS (1955)
THE TOWN (1957)
THE MANSION (1959)
THE REIVERS (1962)
UNCOLLECTED STORIES OF WILLIAM FAULKNER (1979, POSTHUMOUS)
FIRST VINTAGE INTERNATIONAL EDITION, OCTOBER 1990
Copyright © 1984 by Jill Faulkner Summers
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. The Sound and the Fury was originally published by Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, Inc., in 1929.
Copyright 1929 by William Faulkner. Copyright renewed 1956 by William Faulkner. This new and corrected edition was originally published, in hardcover, by Random House, Inc., in 1984.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Faulkner, William, 1897–1962.
The sound and the fury/William Faulkner
p. cm.—(Vintage international)
Reprint. Originally published: Harrison Smith and Jonathan Cape, 1929.
eISBN: 978-0-307-79215-0
I. Title
PS3511.A86S7 1990
813′52—dc20 90-50274
CIP
v3.1_r1
Publisher’s Note
This edition of The Sound and the Fury follows the text as corrected in 1984. The text is based on a comparison—under the direction of Noel Polk—of the first edition and Faulkner’s original manuscript and carbon typescript. An editor’s note on the corrections follows the text.
The Appendix to The Sound and the Fury was originally written for The Portable Faulkner, edited by Malcolm Cowley, and published in 1946 by The Viking Press.
Contents
Cover
William Faulkner's Works
Title Page
Copyright
Publisher’s Note
April Seventh, 1928.
June Second, 1910.
April Sixth, 1928.
April Eighth, 1928.
Editor’s Note
Note to the Appendix
Appendix
Reader’s Guide
William Faulkner (1867–1962)
Also by William Faulkner
Academic Resources for Educators
Vintage International
April Seventh, 1928.
Through the fence, between the curling flower spaces, I could see them hitting. They were coming toward where the flag was and I went along the fence. Luster was hunting in the grass by the flower tree. They took the flag out, and they were hitting. Then they put the flag back and they went to the table, and he hit and the other hit. Then they went on, and I went along the fence. Luster came away from the flower tree and we went along the fence and they stopped and we stopped and I looked through the fence while Luster was hunting in the grass.
“Here, caddie.” He hit. They went away across the pasture. I held to the fence and watched them going away.
“Listen at you, now.” Luster said. “Aint you something, thirty three years old, going on that way. After I done went all the way to town to buy you that cake. Hush up that moaning. Aint you going to help me find that quarter so I can go to the show tonight.”
They were hitting little, across the pasture. I went back along the fence to where the flag was. It flapped on the bright grass and the trees.
“Come on.” Luster said. “We done looked there. They aint no more coming right now. Les go down to the branch and find that quarter before them niggers finds it.”
It was red, flapping on the pasture. Then there was a bird slanting and tilting on it. Luster threw. The flag flapped on the bright grass and the trees. I held to the fence.
“Shut up that moaning.” Luster said. “I cant make them come if they aint coming, can I. If you dont hush up, mammy aint going to have