Lanterns on the Levee by William Alexander Percy

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Dust jacket with light toning to spine, mild dampstain to spine foot, wear to extremities, tape repair to verso of spine head. Occasional ink markings.īook with slight rubbing to spine foot and extreme edges of cloth, spine gilt bright.

Although Lanterns on the Levee lightheartedly mixes truth with legend… the work has a complexity of mood and a witty discernment… Even at the time of its publication it was considered a classic” (ANB). As a novelist Walker Percy would later refer to many of his guardian’s themes, finding them worthy of respect but obsolete in the modern, profane and unchivalric world that Will Percy had soundly denounced. Percy, a lapsed Catholic, contended that the purpose of life was not to seek Christian salvation but to struggle for the right, whatever the odds… Lanterns on the Levee was an extended homily on Percyean values for the benefit of the bachelor’s three young wards-Walker, LeRoy and Phinizy-whom he had reared since 1932… Will Percy intended his book to elucidate the Percys’ ideals of high achievement and artistic creativity for the next generation to exemplify. “In the last years of his life, at the urging of publisher Alfred Knopf and other friends, Percy began writing his memoirs … Appearing in 1941, the work was designed as a very selective rendition of those sentiments, racist and otherwise, that he and the Percy clan had long espoused, most especially an exposition of the Stoic ethic derived from the classical world of Marcus Aurelius. Octavo, original blue cloth, original dust jacket. Lanterns on the Levee: Recollections of a Planter’s Son.

LANTERNS ON THE LEVEE, FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR

Lanterns on the Levee by William Alexander Percy