Robert Penn Warren

A dynamic backwoods lawyer batters his way into the governor's mansion, where he uses his unprincipled charm to become a brutal dictator.

Warren's first novel, set during the "tobacco wars" that raged in Kentucky and Tennessee in the early part of this century. Percy Munn is one of Warren's innocent idealists whose delusions become murderous as he attempts to define himself by action in the unfolding violence around him. Southern Classics Series.

More than 200 poems from every phase of the celebrated poet's writing are gathered in this collection that features several previously unpublished pieces. From "Oxford City Wall", the only poem written while Warren was a Rhodes Scholar, to "Evening Hawk", this compendium provides a generous survey of Warren's poetry.