Pub Date: September 3, 2002
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 2001024363
Lexile Code: 1060
Features: Price on Product
Target Age Group: 14 to UP
Physical Info: 1.60" H x 7.90" L x 5.20" W ( 0.95 lbs) 656 pages
BISAC Categories:
Fiction | Classics | Literary | Political | Historical | General | Southern | Psychological | Legal | Biographical and Autofiction | Adaptations and Pastiche | Small Town and Rural
Description: One of the great classics of American fiction is now available in this restored edition that presents it as it was originally written. The winner of the 1947 Pulitzer Prize traces the rise and fall of Southern politician Willie Talos, an idealistic man of the people who is corrupted by success and lust for power. This edition is restored by Noel Polk.
Brief description:
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.
Review Quotes:
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."
- J O Y C E C A R O L O A T E S, T H E N E W Y O R K R E V I E W O F B O O K S