num_pages: 528
description: 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.
language: English
title: World Enough and Time: A Novel
titlecomplete: World Enough and Time: A Novel (Voices of the South)
genres: 20th Century, American, Historical Fiction, Philosophy, Novels, Literature, Classics, Fiction
ratings_count: 219
publisher: LSU Press