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Paris: Gallimard, 1938. Softcover. First French edition. Translated by Maurice E. Coindreau. Original pale blue printed wrappers in French-folded tissue dustwrapper. Spine very slightly tanned, else fine. One of 20 *hors commerce* copies, this copy Inscribed by the translator to Mlle. Gabrielle Yras. Faulkner's early and staunch appreciation by, and influence upon, French intellectuals prior to his "rediscovery" in America, is well documented.

The Sound and the Fury is a novel by the American author William Faulkner. It employs a number of narrative styles, including stream of consciousness. Published in 1929, the novel was Faulkner's fourth and is now considered to be one of the greatest novels in American literature. The book primarily focuses on the Compson family and their lives in Mississippi during the early 20th century, touching on themes of time, race, and the decline of the Southern aristocracy.