✦ LIBER ✦
The Reivers
✍ Scribed by William Faulkner
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group;Vintage Books
- Year
- 2011;2013
- Tongue
- en-US
- Edition
- Unabridged
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
One of Faulkner's comic masterpieces, The Reivers is a picaresque that tells of three unlikely car thieves from rural Mississippi. Eleven-year-old Lucius Priest is persuaded by Boon Hogganbeck, one of his family's retainers, to steal his grandfather's car and make a trip to Memphis. The Priests' black coachman, Ned McCaslin, stows away, and the three of them are off on a heroic odyssey, for which they are all ill-equipped, that ends at Miss Reba's bordello in Memphis. From there a series of wild misadventures ensues--involving horse smuggling, trainmen, sheriffs' deputies, and jail.