Lanterns on the Levee: Recollections of a Planter's Son (Library of Southern Civilization)
Louisiana State University Press, 1973. Trade Paperback. 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..... More