Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (Modern Society S.) (Peter Owen modern classics) (Picador Classics S.)

by James Agee and Walker Evans

Blake Morrison (Introduction)

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In the summer of 1936, Agee and Evans set out on assignement for Fortune magazine to explore the daily lives of sharecroppers in the South. Their journey would prove an extraordinary collaboration and a watershed literary event when in 1941 Let Us Now Praise Famous Men was first published to enourmous critical acclaim. This unspairing record of place, of the people who shaped the land, and of the rhythm of their lives today stands as one of the most influential books of the twentieth century.
  • ISBN10 0141188499
  • ISBN13 9780141188492
  • Publish Date 6 April 2006 (first published May 1965)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
  • Imprint Penguin Classics
  • Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
  • Pages 512
  • Language English