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.