- 364 pages
- English
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Lanterns on the Levee - Recollections of a Planter's Son
About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- I. The Delta
- II. Delta Folks
- III. Mur and Nain
- IV. Mère and Père
- V. Playmates
- VI. A Side-Show Gödtterdämmerung
- VII. A Small Boy’s Heroes
- VIII. Learning from Teachers
- IX. Sewanee
- X. A Year Abroad
- XI. At the Harvard Law School
- XII. The Return of the Native
- XIII. The Bottom Rail on Top
- XIV. 1914-1916
- XV. The Peewee Squad
- XVI. Getting to the Front
- XVII At the Front
- XVIII. The Ku Klux Klan Comes and Goes
- XIX. Hell and High Water
- XX. The Flood of 1927
- XXI. Planters, Share-Croppers, and Such
- XXII. Fode
- XXIII. A Note on Racial Relations
- XXIV. For the Younger Generation
- XXV. A Bit of Diary
- XXVI. Jackdaw in the Garden
- XXVII. Home