The Sound and the Fury The Corrected Text with Faulkner's Appendix (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)

In a chapter entitled June 2nd, 1910, a Harvard student commits suicide. The narrator is Quentin Compson, who also appears as a character in Absalom, Absalom. Name this classic in American literature penned by William Faulkner. And that is? That's me. The Crucible? No. Take it over here.

As I lay dying. That's the sound and the fury.

We read a lot, and we read good books, including American, Hemingway, Faulkner, Steinbeck, and we learned from this book that there was a free world behind the border of our country, that there are free people out there, and that we live in the closed totalitarian state.

And William Faulkner had written even more fiction on the 1927 flood.

He started to write about this event, I think, in his first major novel, which was The Sound and the Fury. There's a major character in that novel who drowns. There are lots and lots of references to water, water coming up, water burbling up.