The Sound and the Fury (Everyman's Library Classics)

This book tells a family tragedy of the declining Compson family in the south. The old Compson is too fond of drinks and idle about all day and his wife is selfish, cold and blame everyone and everything but not oneself. Their oldest son Quentin clings to the old southern traditions and due to the fact her sister Caddy is dissolute and insults her status as a lady, so Quentin drowned himself. The second son Jason is cold and greedy and the third son Benji is mentally handicapped. The whole book centers on the degeneration of Caddy and via the internal monologue of the three sons and the book ends with the black maids complement to the first three parts.