Robert Penn Warren
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| Title | : | All the King's Men |
| Author | : | Robert Penn Warren |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | 2nd Harvest edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 439 pages |
| Published | : | September 1st 1996 by Harcourt Brace (first published 1946) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Classics. Historical. Historical Fiction. Politics. Literature. Novels. American |
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More than just a classic political novel, Warren’s tale of power and corruption in the Depression-era South is a sustained meditation on the unforeseen consequences of every human act, the vexing connectedness of all people and the possibility—it’s not much of one—of goodness in a sinful world. Willie Stark, Warren’s lightly disguised version of Huey Long, the one time Louisiana strongman/governor, begins as a genuine tribune of the people and ends as a murderous populist demagogue. Jack Burden is his press agent, who carries out the boss’s orders, first without objection, then in the face of his own increasingly troubled conscience. And the politics? For Warren, that’s simply the arena most likely to prove that man is a fallen creature. Which it does.Present Books In Favor Of All the King's Men
| Original Title: | All the King’s Men |
| ISBN: | 0156004801 (ISBN13: 9780156004800) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | Southern Region(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1947), Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger for Roman (1953), Mikael Agricola -palkinto (1977) |
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Brilliant book.Read this passage:A woman only laughs that way a few times in her life. A woman only laughs that way when something has touched her way down in the very quick of her being and the happiness just wells out as natural as breath and the first jonquils and mountain brooks. When a woman laughs that way it always does something to you. It does not matter what kind of a face she has got either. You hear that laugh and feel that you have grasped a clean and beautiful truth. You feel that way because
Wow, 80 editions !! I wish I had looked at all the choices before buying it. Apparently there is even a 50th year edition, which is complete with
"Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud." Robert Penn WarrenRobert Penn Warren is the only person to win the Pulitzer prize for fiction as well as poetry. He won the prize for fiction in 1946 for this very book. If you are lucky enough to have a great aunt who reads, and bought a lot of books in the 1940s, you might take a gander at her books some time and see if she has a first edition, first printing of this book
Meaning to do good, Willie Stark rises from self-educated lawyer to political bigwig and eventually governor. Along the way he loses his moral compass and develops a taste for power, resorting to bullying, bribery, blackmail - whatever it takes - to get what he wants.Willie does manage to help some of his constituents, taxing the wealthy to provide schools and hospitals for the poor. But he also betrays his wife; raises a selfish, self-absorbed son; corrupts good people; and eventually reaps the
All the Kings Men, Robert Penn WarrenAll the King's Men is a novel by Robert Penn Warren first published in 1946. Its title is drawn from the nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty. In 1947, Warren won the Pulitzer Prize for All the King's Men. It was adapted for a film in 1949 and 2006; the 1949 version won the Academy Award for Best Picture. It is rated as the 36th greatest novel of the 20th century by Modern Library, and it was chosen as one of Time magazine's 100 best novels. All the King's Men
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