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The house of Percy : honor, melancholy, and imagination in a southern family /

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The novels of Walker Percy - The Moviegoer, The Second Coming, and The Thanatos Syndrome to name a few - have left a permanent mark on twentieth-century Southern fiction; yet the history of the Percy family in America matches anything, perhaps, that he could have created.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wyatt-Brown, Bertram, 1932-2012
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1994.
Subjects:
Percy, Walker, > 1916-1990 > Bibliography.
Percy, William Alexander, > 1885-1942 > Bibliography.
Dorsey, Sarah A. > (Sarah Anne), > 1829-1879 > Bibliography.
Dorsey, Sarah A. > (Sarah Anne), > 1829-1879.
Percy, Walker, > 1916-1990.
Percy, William Alexander, > 1885-1942.
Authors, American > Southern States > Biography.
Intellectuals > Southern States > Biography.
Écrivains américains > États-Unis (Sud) > Biographies.
Intellectuels > États-Unis (Sud) > Biographies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
REFERENCE > Genealogy & Heraldry.
Authors, American.
Intellectuals.
Southern States.
Families > Social life
United States
Electronic books.
Bibliographies.
Biographies.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • PROLOGUE: The Brooding Knight; PART ONE: The Early Male Percys; PART TWO: The Female Line; PART THREE: The Greenville Percys; PART FOUR: Fiction, Legend, and Lineage; APPENDICES: Genealogical Charts; A Selected List of Manuscript Collections; Notes; Index