Lanterns on the Levee Recollections of a Planter's Son

Name: Lanterns on the Levee Recollections of a Planter's Son
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ISBN: 9780807100721

ISBN-10: 0807100722

ISBN-13: 9780807100721

Edition: 1973

Authors: William Alexander Percy, Walker Percy

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Born and raised in Greenville, Mississippi, within the shelter of old traditions, aristocratic in the best sense, William Alexander Percy in his lifetime (1885--1942) was brought face to face with the convulsions of a changing world. Lanterns on the Levee is his memorial to the South of his youth and young manhood. In describing life in the Mississippi Delta, Percy bridges the interval between the semifeudal South of the 1800s and the anxious South of the early 1940s. The rare qualities of this classic memoir lie not in what Will Percy did in his life -- although his life was exciting and varied -- but rather in the intimate, honest, and soul-probing record of how he brought himself to…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 1973
Publisher: LSU Press
Publication date: 10/1/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 376
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English




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Playmates



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Learning from Teachers



Sewanee



A Year Abroad



At the Harvard Law School



The Return of the Native



The Bottom Rail on Top



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The Peewee Squad



Getting to the Front



At the Front



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Hell and High Water



The Flood of 1927



Planters, Share-Croppers, and Such



Fode



A Note on Racial Relations



For the Younger Generation



A Bit of Diary



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