A Southerner of the Mississippi Delta tells, discursively and with
no little charm, of his childhood, parents, Virginia relatives,
small boy activities and education and life in the pre-1900's.
Harvard Law, a spot of teaching, politics, travel, the First World
War and his share. Back to Mississippi, fighting the Klan and the
river floods. Pleasant reading, leisurely, philosophical,
retrospective, nicely old style - of more than local interest.
(Kirkus Reviews)
Born and raised in Greenville, Mississippi, within the shelter
of old traditions, aristocratic in the best sense, William
Alexander Percy in his lifetime (1885--1942) was brought face to
face with the convulsions of a changing world. Lanterns on the
Levee is his memorial to the South of his youth and young manhood.
In describing life in the Mississippi Delta, Percy bridges the
interval between the semifeudal South of the 1800s and the anxious
South of the early 1940s. The rare qualities of this classic memoir
lie not in what Will Percy did in his life -- although his life was
exciting and varied -- but rather in the intimate, honest, and
soul-probing record of how he brought himself to contemplate
unflinchingly a new and unstable era. The 1973 introduction by
Walker Percy -- Will's nephew and adopted son -- recalls the strong
character and easy grace of "the most extraordinary man I have ever
known."
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