All the King's Men

Robert Penn Warren

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Penguin
24 October 2007

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Series: Penguin Modern Classics

First published in 1946, the novel won the Pulitzer Prize in 1947 and was made into an Academy Award-winning film in 1949 and re-made in 2006 with an all-star cast

All the King's Men is considered the finest novel ever written on American politics. Set in the 1930s, this book traces the rise and fall of Willie Stark, who resembles the real-life Huey 'Kingfish' Long of Louisiana. Stark begins his political career as an idealistic man of the people but soon becomes corrupted by success.

By: Robert Penn Warren
Imprint: Penguin
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 460g
ISBN: 9780141188614
ISBN 10: 0141188618
Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Pages: 672
Publication Date: 24 October 2007
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989) was born in Guthrie, Kentucky. In his lifetime he 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.

Reviews for All the King's Men

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 . -- Los Angeles Times Book Review It's a measure of the enduring worth of All the King's Men that Willie Stark has entered our collective literary consciousness, in the company of Captain Ahab, Huck Finn, Jay Gatsby, Holden Caulfield, Rabbit Angstrom, and very few others. --Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Review of Books