All the King's Men
$43.66
- Paperback
672 pages
- Release Date
24 October 2007
Summary
First published in 1946, the novel won the Pulitzer Prize in 1947 and was made into an Academy Award-winning film in 1949 and re-made in 2006 with an all-star cast.
All the King’s Men is considered the finest novel ever written on American politics. Set in the 1930s, this book traces the rise and fall of Willie Stark, who resembles the real-life Huey ‘Kingfish’ Long of Louisiana. Stark begins his political career as an idealistic man of the people but soon becomes corrupted by success.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141188614 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0141188618 |
| Author: | Robert Penn Warren |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 672 |
| Release Date: | 24 October 2007 |
| Weight: | 498g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 128mm x 40mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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PRAISE FOR “ALL THE KING’S MEN”“Over the course of more than two centuries of vivid political history, there is perhaps only one full-blooded American novel of politics that plunges deep into the hearts of its characters and therefore into the hearts of its readers, thus rising to the top ranks of American fiction. That is Robert Penn Warren’s lush “All the King’s Men”.“–“Los Angeles Times Book Review”“It’s a measure of the enduring worth of “All the King’s Men” that Willie Stark has entered our collective literary consciousness, in the company of Captain Ahab, Huck Finn, Jay Gatsby, Holden Caulfield, Rabbit Angstrom, and very few others.“–Joyce Carol Oates, “The New York Review of Books”PRAISE FOR”ALL THE KING’S MEN”“Over the course of more than two centuries of vivid political history, there is perhaps only one full-blooded American novel of politics that plunges deep into the hearts of its characters and therefore into the hearts of its readers, thus rising to the top ranks of American fiction. That is Robert Penn Warren’s lush”All the King’s Men”.“–“Los Angeles Times Book Review”“It’s a measure of the enduring worth of”All the King’s Men”that Willie Stark has entered our collective literary consciousness, in the company of Captain Ahab, Huck Finn, Jay Gatsby, Holden Caulfield, Rabbit Angstrom, and very few others.“–Joyce Carol Oates, “The New York Review of Books”PRAISE FOR “ALL THE KING’S MEN” “Over the course of more than two centuries of vivid political history, there is perhaps only one full-blooded American novel of politics that plunges deep into the hearts of its characters and therefore into the hearts of its readers, thus rising to the top ranks of American fiction. That is Robert Penn Warren’s lush “All the King’s Men,”“–“Los Angeles Times Book Review” “It’s a measure of the enduring worth of “All the King’s Men” that Willie Stark has entered our collective literary consciousness, in the company of Captain Ahab, Huck Finn, Jay Gatsby, Holden Caulfield, Rabbit Angstrom, and very few others.“–Joyce Carol Oates, “The New York Review of Books”
About The Author
Robert Penn Warren
Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989) was born in Guthrie, Kentucky. In his lifetime he 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.
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