{"product_id":"knights-gambit-9781496842039","title":"Knight's Gambit","description":"Originally published in 1949, William Faulkner's \u003ci\u003eKnight's Gambit \u003c\/i\u003eis a collection of six stories written in the 1930s and 1940s that focus on the criminal investigations of Yoknapatawpha's long-time county attorney, Gavin Stevens--a man more interested in justice than the law. All previous and current editions of \u003ci\u003eKnight's Gambit\u003c\/i\u003e have been based on the first edition, which is fraught with a number of problems. Since tear sheets of the five previously published stories were used in setting the first edition, the original \u003ci\u003eKnight's Gambit\u003c\/i\u003e is a hodgepodge of various magazines' house styles with no consistency in punctuation and spelling conventions from story to story. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Far greater issues arise, however, from the substantive (and sometimes substantial) changes magazine editors made to Faulkner's prose. These changes were made variously for concision, propriety, or magazine design. Sometimes northern editors removed the southernness of Faulkner's stories, either out of ignorance of the South or in order to appeal to a mass audience. Using four previously unknown Faulkner typescripts, along with other manuscript and typescript evidence, John N. Duvall presents an edition of \u003ci\u003eKnight's Gambit\u003c\/i\u003e that restores over four thousand words that editors cut from the stories. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Also included is an introduction by Duvall discussing the role of detective fiction and popular magazines in creating a different kind of postwar readership for Faulkner that paves the way for the eventual republication of Faulkner's modernist masterpieces. The new edition enables readers to reevaluate the stories of \u003ci\u003eKnight's Gambit\u003c\/i\u003e and their place in Faulkner's career as a short story writer.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilliam Faulkner\u003c\/b\u003e (1897-1962) is considered one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. His novels include \u003ci\u003eThe Sound and the Fury\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eLight in August\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eAbsalom, Absalom!\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eSanctuary\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eAs I Lay Dying\u003c\/i\u003e. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950. \u003cb\u003eJohn N. Duvall \u003c\/b\u003eis Margaret Church Distinguished Professor of English at Purdue University and editor of \u003ci\u003eModern Fiction Studies\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University Press of Mississippi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50864530424082,"sku":"9781496842039","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_b0833762-735a-4c8c-be05-07668df7e78c.jpg?v=1737657114","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/knights-gambit-9781496842039","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}