The text of this Norton Critical Edition is that of the corrected edition scrupulously prepared by Noel Polk, whose textual note precedes the text. David Minter's annotations are designed to assist the reader with obscure words and allusions.

Preface to the Second Edition

Editor's Note

The Text of The Sound and the Fury

Backgrounds

William Faulkner·Appendix. Compson: 1699-1945

William Faulkner·lefferson, Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi

William Faulkner * Selected Letters

To Mrs. Walter B. McLean, Wednesday [late Sept. 1927]

To Horace Liveright, sunday,--october [16 Oct. 1927]

To Horace Liveright, 30 november [1927]

To Mrs. Walter B. McLean, Weduesday [probably Oct. 1928]

To Alfred Harcourt, 18 Feb. 1929

To Ben Wasson, Iearly summer, 1929]

To Ben Wasson, [early summer, 1929]

Ben Wasson·[Publishing The Sound and the Fury]

 William Faulkner·An Introduction for The Sound and the Fury

 William Faulkner·An Introduction to The Sound and the Fury

 William Faulkner·Interview with lean Stein vanden Heuvel

 William Faulkner·Class Conferences at the University of Virginia

Cultural and Historical Contexts

 C. Vann Woodward·The Irony of Southern History

 Robert Penn Warren·Faulkner: Past and Future

 Richard H. King·A Southern Renaissance

 Carolyn Porter·Faulkner's America

Criticism

 lean-Paul Sartre·On The Sound and the Fury: Time in the Work of Faulkner

 Irving Howe·Faulkner and the Negroes

 Ralph Ellison·Twentieth-Century Fiction and the Black Mask of Humanity

 Olga W. Vickery·The Sound and the Fury: A Study in Perspective

 Cleanth Brooks·Man, Time, and Eternity

 Michael Millgate·The Sound and the Fury: [Story and Novel]

 John T. Irwin·[Doubling and Incest in The Sound and the Fury]

 Myra Jehlen·[Faulkner's Fiction and Southern Society]

 Donald M. Kartiganer·[The Meaning of Form in] The Sound and the Fury

 David Minter·Faulkner, Childhood, and the Making of The Sound and the Fury

 Warwick Wadlington·The Sound and the Fury:A Logic of Tragedy

 John T. Matthews·The Discovery of Loss in The Sound and the Fury

 Thadious M. Davis·[Faulkner's "Negro" in The Sound and the Fury]

 Wesley Morris with Barbara Alverson Morris·A Writing Lesson: The Recovery of Antigone

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Selected Bilbiography