Robert Penn Warren

Inscribed first UK edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of political intrigue, ambition, and "the awful responsibility of Time".

• Robert Penn Warren (American).
• London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, [1948].
• 514 pages.
• Inscribed by Warren to front flyleaf, dated May 21, 1977. 
• Original unclipped (7s. 6d.) dust jacket.
• Original black cloth binding with gilt spine lettering.

Warren's great American classic of "a Southern Governor who is a scoundrel and a saint," evolving out of an earlier verse play and loosely based on the rise and fall of Senator Huey Long in the Depression-era South, though the author maintained that politics "merely provided the framework story in which the deeper concerns" might work themselves out. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and inspirer of a 1949 film adaptation that won Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Supporting Actress (Mercedes McCambridge), and Best Actor (Broderick Crawford) – in the lead role of Willie Stark. A "massive, impressive" novel by "probably the most talented writer in the South and certainly...one of the most important writers in the whole country" (Sinclair Lewis).