Faulkner, William

New York. 1950. December 1950. Signet/New American Library. 1st Signet Paperback Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Wrappers. . 189 pages. paperback. 825. . keywords: Literature America Southern. FROM THE PUBLISHER - REMBERED LOVE. . ‘Why is it,' Gavin Stevens said, ‘that people of eighteen or almost - are so convinced that octogenarians like me are incapable of accepting or respecting or even remembering what the young ones consider passion and love?' Hopelessly in love with a woman who had contracted two misbegotten alliances, Gavin Stevens, in his forties, suddenly finds himself controlling the destinies of his sweetheart, her lover, and her two children, in the suspense-filled story, KNIGHT'S GAMBIT. William Faulkner is called by critics, our greatest living writer, our only genius.' Born in, New Albany, Mississippi, he has spent mast of his life around Oxford, Mississippi, the Jefferson of so many of his books and stories. Of his eighteen books, millions of copies have been sold of the titles thus far reprinted in Signet editions: SANCTUARY (#632), THE WILD PALMS (#659), THE OLD MAN (#692), and INTRUDER IN THE DUST (#743). inventory #20626