num_pages: 642
description: Winner of the 1947 Pulitzer Prize, All the King's Men is one of the most famous and widely read works in American fiction. It traces the rise and fall of demagogue Willie Stark - called Willie Talos in this "restored" edition - a fictional Southern politician who resembles the real-life Huey "Kingfish" Long of Louisiana. Talos begins his career as an idealistic man of the people, but he soon becomes corrupted by success and caught in a lust for power. All the King's Men is as relevant today as it was fifty years ago. Robert Penn Warren's masterpiece has been restored by literary scholar Noel Polk, whose work on the texts of William Faulkner has proved so important to American literature. Polk presents the novel as it was originally written, revealing even greater complexity and subtlety of character. All the King's Men is a landmark in letters.
language: English
title: All the King's Men
titlecomplete: All the King's Men (Restored Edition)
characters: Ellis Burden, "Sugar-Boy" O'Sheean, Gummy Larson, Judge Montague Irwin, Lucy Stark, Willie Stark, Sadie Burke, Tom Stark, Adam Stanton, Tiny Duffy, Jack Burden, Cass Mastern, Anne Stanton
genres: Fiction, Historical, American, Politics, Literature, Classics, Novels, Historical Fiction, Southern, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 62725
places: Southern Region
awards: awardedAt: -725817600000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: -536428800000
name: Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger
category: Roman, awardedAt: 220953600000
name: Mikael Agricola -palkinto
publisher: Harcourt, Inc.