Knight's Gambit Paperback by William Faulkner

Product Details

• Publisher: Vintage (2012-01-03)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 272 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780307946799
• Item Weight: 238.14 grams
• Dimensions: 8.0 x 5.2 x 0.6 cm

Gavin Stevens, the wise and forbearing student of crime and of the folk ways of Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, plays the major role in these six stories of violence. In each, Stevens’sharp insights and ingenious detection uncover the underlying motives.

About the Author

WILLIAM FAULKNER was born in 1897 and raised in Oxford, Mississippi, where he spent most of his life. One of the towering figures of American literature, he is the author of The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, and Absalom, Absalom!, among many other remarkable books. Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for 1949 and France’s Legion of Honor in 1951. He died in 1962.