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        All The King's Men


        setting

        Huey Long´s Louisiana

        time

        1940s

        language

        English

        region

        North America

        year published

        1946

        page count

        438

        difficulty

        Advanced

        main characters

        Willie Stark, Jack Burden, Catherine

        Rip's impressions

        Written by a poet laureate and most of the novel's prose lives up to that brilliance. But some of the philosophical meandering dulls the full effect of Huey Long's legacy.

        first line

        To get there you follow Highway 58, going northeast out of the city, and it is a good highway and new.

        last lines

        (spoiler alert)