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The Sound and the Fury
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Light in August, published in 1932, is one of William Faulkner's most acclaimed and accessible novels. This Southern Gothic masterpiece is renowned for its complex narrative structure and profound examination of the American South's troubled history. The story explores themes of race, religion, and identity through the intertwining lives of three memorable characters.
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El ruido y la furia [The Sound and the Fury]
- By: William Faulkner, Ana Antón-Pacheco - traductor
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La obra maestra del Premio Nobel de Literatura William Faulkner relata la degeneración progresiva de la familia Compson, sus secretos y las relaciones de amor y odio que la sostienen y la destruyen....
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La “narración” me arruinó la experiencia.
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El ruido y la furia [The Sound and the Fury]
- Narrated by: Javier Lacroix
- Series: Sin and Salvation [Spanish Edition]
- Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 04-13-23
- Language: Spanish
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As I Lay Dying
- By: William Faulkner
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
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As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner is consistently ranked among the greatest novels of the twentieth century. Set in Faulkner’s fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, the book tells of the hapless and tormented Bundren family.
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As I Lay Dying
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 01-01-26
- Language: English
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The Sound and the Fury
- By: William Faulkner
- Narrated by: Pete Cross
- Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
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Set in Jefferson, Mississippi, The Sound and the Fury follows the Compson family. Over the course of four different narratives, the story maps the family's decline from Southern aristocracy to tragedy.
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Pete Cross’s performance .
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The Sound and the Fury
- Narrated by: Pete Cross
- Series: Sin and Salvation, Book 2
- Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 01-06-25
- Language: English
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The Essential American Classics Collection: 5 Timeless Novels
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- By: Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and others
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- Length: 62 hrs and 25 mins
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This carefully curated collection brings together some of the most influential and enduring works in American literature.
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The Essential American Classics Collection: 5 Timeless Novels
- A Farewell to Arms; The Age of Innocence; The Sound and the Fury; The Great Gatsby; & Moby Dick
- Narrated by: Nathan Osgood, Katherine Fenton, Robert G. Slade
- Length: 62 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 09-18-25
- Language: English
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The Sound and the Fury
- Narrated by: Nathan Osgood
- Series: Sin and Salvation, Book 2
- Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 02-27-25
- Language: English
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The Sound and the Fury
- By: William Faulkner, Casey Cep - introduction
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner, Gabra Zackman
- Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,925
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Performance1,455
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NOBEL PRIZE WINNER One of the greatest novels of the twentieth century is the story of a family of Southern aristocrats on the brink of personal and financial ruin. The definitive corrected text, including Faulkner's Appendix One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100...
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Hang in
- By W.Denis on 07-11-05
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The Sound and the Fury
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner, Gabra Zackman
- Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 07-08-05
- Language: English
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The Mansion
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 15 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 10-07-10
- Language: English
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As I Lay Dying
- By: William Faulkner, Jesmyn Ward - introduction
- Narrated by: Marc Cashman, Robertson Dean, Lina Patel, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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A true 20th-century classic from the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Sound and the Fury: the famed harrowing account of the Bundren family’s odyssey across the Mississippi countryside to bury Addie, their wife and mother. As I Lay Dying is one of the most influential novels in American...
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Faulkner's As I Lay Dying review
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As I Lay Dying
- Narrated by: Marc Cashman, Robertson Dean, Lina Patel, Lorna Raver, Jesmyn Ward
- Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 08-23-05
- Language: English
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The Wild Palms
- Narrated by: Marc Vietor
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 08-23-10
- Language: English
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The Town
- A Novel of the Snopes Family
- By: William Faulkner
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 13 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall144
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Performance123
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The story of Flem Snopes' ruthless struggle to take over the town of Jefferson, Mississippi, this is the second volume of Faulkner's trilogy about the Snopes family....
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Accessible Faulkner
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The Town
- A Novel of the Snopes Family
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 13 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 10-08-10
- Language: English
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A Fable
- By: William Faulkner
- Narrated by: Kevin Pariseau
- Length: 20 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall59
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Performance50
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Story50
An allegorical story of World War I set in the trenches in France and dealing ostensibly with a mutiny in a French regiment....
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Bad Production and Direction
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A Fable
- Narrated by: Kevin Pariseau
- Length: 20 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 10-07-10
- Language: English
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Intruder in the Dust
- By: William Faulkner
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall166
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Performance115
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Story116
A classic Faulkner novel which explores the lives of a family of characters in the South. An aging black who has long refused to adopt the black's traditionally servile attitude is wrongfully accused of murdering a white man...
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Excellent characterization, fine suspense
- By Doug on 05-14-09
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Intruder in the Dust
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 10-30-07
- Language: English
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The Sound and the Fury
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Series: Sin and Salvation, Book 2
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 01-01-25
- Language: English
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The Reivers
- By: William Faulkner
- Narrated by: John H. Mayer
- Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall243
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Performance187
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Story187
One of Faulkner's comic masterpieces, The Reivers is a picaresque that tells of three unlikely car thieves from rural Mississippi. Eleven-year-old Lucius Priest is persuaded by Boon Hogganbeck, one of his family's retainers, to steal his grandfather's car and make a trip to Memphis. The Priest's...
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4 days in the life of an eleven year old
- By ruth a anderson on 11-17-09
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The Reivers
- Narrated by: John H. Mayer
- Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 03-06-08
- Language: English
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Light in August
- By: William Faulkner
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 17 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall146
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Performance129
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Story128
From the Nobel Prize winner—one of the most highly acclaimed writers of the twentieth century—a novel set in the American South during Prohibition about hopeful perseverance in the face of mortality. Light in August features some of Faulkner’s most memorable characters: guileless...
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Simply great.
- By Jamie on 08-18-05
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Light in August
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 17 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 08-16-05
- Language: English
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Sanctuary
- By: William Faulkner
- Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
- Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall204
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Performance156
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Story158
Rediscover this Faulkner classic--or explore it for the first time. A powerful novel examining the nature of evil, informed by the works of T. S. Eliot and Freud, mythology, local lore, and hard-boiled detective fiction, Sanctuary is the dark, at times brutal, story of the kidnapping of...
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disappointment
- By Dana on 10-20-10
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Sanctuary
- Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
- Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 02-05-08
- Language: English
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The Hamlet
- By: William Faulkner
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 14 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall241
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Performance205
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Story203
The Hamlet, the first novel of Faulkner's Snopes trilogy, is both an ironic take on classical tragedy and a mordant commentary on the grand pretensions of the antebellum South....
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The Long, Hot Summer
- By W Perry Hall on 07-30-17
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The Hamlet
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 14 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 12-17-10
- Language: English
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Absalom, Absalom!
- By: William Faulkner
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 12 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall966
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Performance797
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Story798
ABSALOM, ABSALOM! tells the story of Thomas Sutpen, the enigmatic stranger who came to Jefferson township in the early 1830s. With a French architect and a band of wild Haitians, he wrung a fabulous plantation out of the muddy bottoms of the north Mississippi wilderness. Sutpen was a man...
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A long, enjoyable listen
- By pilot on 01-08-09
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Absalom, Absalom!
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Series: Sin and Salvation, Book 6
- Length: 12 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 01-08-08
- Language: English
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The Sound and the Fury
- By: William Faulkner
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot, Shaun Taylor-Corbett, Edoardo Ballerini, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall8
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Performance7
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Nobel Prize–winning author William Faulkner expertly illustrates the epic and tragic story of the Compson family, three generations of Southern aristocrats on the brink of ruin.
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Spectacular performance of an American masterpiece
- By a reader... on 05-26-25
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The Sound and the Fury
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot, Shaun Taylor-Corbett, Edoardo Ballerini, Robin Miles
- Series: Sin and Salvation, Book 2
- Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 01-07-25
- Language: English
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