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 doing just that. Based on the famous murder case known as the Kentucky Tragedy, World Enough and Time is, like ...
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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 doing just that. Based on the famous murder case known as the Kentucky Tragedy, World Enough and Time is, like its precursor All the King's Men, a fictional wonder that personifies history, philosophy, politics, and passion.
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Reader copy. Ex library rebound hardback, no DJ; usual stamps/markings. Published in 1973 by Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd., London. Light wear to boards & page edges little grubby, some staining/handling marks to a few pages otherwise a clean, sound copy. Ready for immediate despatch from UK. BS-4A*
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Good. 1950. Hardcover. Showing some age and light shelf wear. Previous owner's ex-libris stamp to FFEP. Lacking dust wrapper but remains a good copy.....We ship daily from our Bookshop.
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Good in Poor jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Jacket very rubbed and chipped, front flap detatched. Boards have light wear. Pages are clean, tight and unmarked.
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Good. Good condition. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.
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Good in Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Jacket encased in brodart, creased underneath, price clipped. Edging of brodart has bled onto boards and end pages. Pages are clean, tight and unmarked.
