SUMMER READING FOR LOCAL SCHOOLS
Carlisle Area School District's Summer Reading is an ambitious and wide-ranging program from 6th to 12th grades, including AP levels. Most are always in stock, and we are committed to stocking them all from May through August. Don't put it off 'til the last moment!
The Sound and the Fury
The Sound and the Fury
The Sound and the Fury, first published in 1929, is perhaps William Faulkner’s greatest book. It was immediately praised for its innovative narrative technique, and comparisons were made with Joyce and Dostoyevsky, but it did not receive popular acclaim until the late forties, shortly before Faulkner received the Nobel Prize for Literature.
The novel reveals the story of the disintegration of the Compson family, doomed inhabitants of Faulkner’s mythical Yoknapatawpha County, through the interior monologues of the idiot Benjy and his brothers, Quentin and Jason.