The Sound and the Fury

This Norton Critical Edition includes:

• The 1929 text of The Sound and the Fury, corrected by textual scholar Noel Polk to correspond to Faulkner’s original complete manuscript.
• A reimagined preface, revised headnotes, and expanded footnotes by Michael Gorra to contextualize, among other aspects, racial epithets and biblical allusions.
• Additional writings by Faulkner, ranging from selected letters to his address upon receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature.
• Contextual materials illuminating contemporary responses to the novel and the cultural and historical environment of Faulkner’s Mississippi, featuring new photographs of Oxford by George G. Stewart.
• Over 15 critical essays.
• A selected bibliography and a chronology.