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The Sound and the Fury

William Faulkner

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erokarJul 3, 2022

Faulkner: The Sound and the Fury

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IanChilesMay 11, 2013

I'd also add Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury - it's excellent, despite being a bit tough to understand

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diversityhireDec 5, 2007

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's Flow: the Psychology of Optimal Experience William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying & The Sound and the Fury Julian Jaynes' The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind Peter Medawar's The Art of the Soluable Designed by Peter Saville Nietzsche's Twilight of the Idols Bloom County Babylon

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