The Sound and the Fury and As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

The Sound and the Fury (1929) and As I Lay Dying (1930) are two of William Faulkner’s most acclaimed novels, both set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County in Mississippi. They explore the psychological depths of family, identity, and decay in the post-Reconstruction South:

• The Sound and the Fury follows the tragic unraveling of the Compson family, using stream-of-consciousness narration to portray mental illness, time, and memory.
• As I Lay Dying tells the darkly comic and heartbreaking story of the Bundren family’s journey to bury their matriarch, with each chapter narrated by a different character—alive or dead.

Paperback, 1946 Goodreads: 4.11