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        The Sound And The Fury


        setting

        Yoknapatawpha County, Deep South

        time

        1920s

        language

        English

        region

        North America

        year published

        1929

        page count

        199

        difficulty

        Extreme

        main characters

        Benjy, Quentin, Jason and Caddy Compson, Dilsey Gibson

        Rip's impressions

        Classic Faulkner: not hard to read, just hard to follow... on second thought, hard to read, as well. Try a short story or two of his first.

        first line

        Through the fence, between the curling flower spaces, I could see them hitting.

        last lines

        (spoiler alert)