| World Enough and Time Contributor(s): Warren, Robert Penn (Author) |
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ISBN: 0807124788 ISBN-13: 9780807124789 Publisher: LSU Press OUR PRICE: $17.96 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 1999 Annotation: In the admixture of wilderness and elegant society that was 1826 Kentucky, Jeremiah Beaumont, a brilliant, imaginative lawyer, stood trial for murdering his benefactor and father figure, the politician Colonel Cassius Fort. Now all the documents are in hand to reconstruct Beaumont's life story -- his crime, his trial, his ultimate sin and punishment -- and the historian-narrator of World Enough and Time sets about doing just that. He uncovers a burning idealist's search for purpose and his rabid rejection, like other great Promethean heroes of the American mythology, of conventional heroism. Based on the famous murder case known as the Kentucky Tragedy, World Enough and Time is, like its precursor All the King's Men, a fictional wonder that personifies history, philosophy, politics, and passion. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 99015675 |
| Series: Voices of the South |
| Physical Information: 0.98" H x 5.54" W x 8.54" (1.23 lbs) 528 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1800-1850 - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. - Cultural Region - South - Geographic Orientation - Kentucky |
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| Publisher Description: In the admixture of wilderness and elegant society that was 1826 Kentucky, Jeremiah Beaumont, a brilliant, imaginative lawyer, stood trial for murdering his benefactor and father figure, the politician Colonel Cassius Fort. Now all the documents are in hand to reconstruct Beaumont's life story -- his crime, his trial, his ultimate sin and punishment -- and the historian-narrator of World Enough and Time sets about doing just that. Based on the famous murder case known as the Kentucky Tragedy, World Enough and Time is, like its precursor All the King's Men, a fictional wonder that personifies history, philosophy, politics, and passion. |