Lanterns on the Levee - Recollections of a Planter's Son
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Publisher Description
This fascinating volume contains the memoirs of William Alexander Percy, who was born and raised in Mississippi and witnessed the social changes at the turn of the century. 'Lanterns on the Levee' is his memorial to the South within which he describes life in the Mississippi Delta, during the time between the semi-feudal South of the 1800s and the uncertain South of the early 1940s. This is a book that will be of much value to anyone with an interest in the history and development of southern American society. It is not one to be missed by collectors of William Alexander Percy's important literature. William Alexander Percy (1885 - 1942) was a lawyer, planter, and poet from Greenville, Mississippi, most famous for writing this best-selling biography. We are republishing this text now in a modern, affordable edition complete with a new prefatory biography of the author.
Customer Reviews
Lanterns on the Levee
This is on my short list of books to be reread if I should ever know that I am soon to die. Percy, uncle of Walker Percy, writes with seductive, genteel elegance of Southern life and people in a time that, while long gone, by modern measures, is recent enough that we we would all do well to understand it better.
Excellent book
Some misinterpretations of the scanned original text were off putting. For example the word "the" was represented as "die" in numerous places. There were others I was never able to figure out.