{"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\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of Mississippi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/15\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781496842039\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 232\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAccelerated Reader Quiz #\/Name: \u003c\/b\u003e57002 \/ Knight's Gambit\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReading Level:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.2 \/ \u003cb\u003eInterest Level:\u003c\/b\u003e Upper Grade \/ \u003cb\u003ePoint Value:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"William Faulkner","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42289559666869,"sku":"9781496842039","price":21.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_70a39b06-336b-4694-9227-f1f88fc86b66.jpg?v=1658201421","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/knights-gambit-9781496842039","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}