The Sound and the Fury cover

Reading Metrics

Grade Level Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level 4.4
Points 14.0
Fiction/Nonfiction Fiction
Word Count 96931
Points per Word 0.000144
Page Count 326
Points per Page 0.042945

Description

This classic novel, told in four chapters by four different voices, tells the story of the decline of the once prominent Compson family along with the deterioration of the Southern aristocratic class in the deep south after the Civil War.