Robert Penn Warren, Noel Polk

All the King's Men

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE The fully restored original text of the classic, ever-relevant story of a backcountry lawyer whose idealism is overcome by his lust for power?American literature's definitive political novel. All the King's Men traces the rise of fall of demagogue Willie Talos, a fiction Southern policitian who resembles the real-life Huey Long of Louisiana. Talos begins his career as an idealistic man of the people, but he soon becomes corrupted by success and the lust for power. Now Warren's masterpiece has been fully restored and reintroduced by literary scholar Noel Polk, textual editor of the works of William Faulkner. Polk presents the novel as it was originally written, revealing even greater energy, excitement, and complexity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Houghton Mifflin
• Seitenzahl: 656
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. September 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 133mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 814g
• ISBN-13: 9780156012959
• ISBN-10: 0156012952
• Artikelnr.: 21082090

Autorenporträt

Robert Penn Warren (1905?1989) won three Pulitzer Prizes, the National Book Award, the National Medal for Literature, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In 1986 he was named the country's first poet laureate.