# The Sound and the Fury

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner has 96,592 words.

## At a glance

- **Author:** [William Faulkner](https://musael.com/books/authors/william-faulkner.md) (1897–1962)
- **Genre:** literary fiction
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 96,592
- **Reading time:** 6 h 26 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 10 h 23 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 8 h 3 min | 17 days |
| 250 wpm | 6 h 26 min | 13 days |
| 300 wpm | 5 h 22 min | 11 days |

## Read or listen

The Sound and the Fury is in the public domain: these editions are free to download, read and share.

- Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/william-faulkner/the-sound-and-the-fury
- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/75170

## Counted from the text

Automated estimates from the selected Project Gutenberg text; it may include a preface or notes.

- Words in the text: 96,787
- Dialogue: 33% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 10.1 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/william-faulkner/the-sound-and-the-fury (word count)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/75170 (word count)
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL82870W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/75170

Checked on 2026-10-27. Page counts change from edition to edition.

Source: https://musael.com/books/the-sound-and-the-fury