World Enough and Time

Robert Penn Warren

Original title: World enough and time

first published 1950 New English Library, 1978 512 pages

Voices of the South

"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 doi...

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World enough and time edition · 1999 · Louisiana State University Press · 465 pages
World Enough and Time paperback · 1999 · J. S. Sanders and Company · 9781879941236
World enough and time edition · 1979 · Vintage Books · 469 pages
World enough and time edition · 1978 · New English Library · 512 pages
World enough and time hardcover · 1973 · Secker and Warburg · 512 pages

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