{"product_id":"knights-gambit","title":"Knight's Gambit","description":"Originally published in 1949, William Faulkner’s Knight’s Gambit is 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 Knight’s Gambit 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 Knight’s Gambit is a hodgepodge of various magazines’ house styles with no consistency in punctuation and spelling conventions from story to story.\n\nFar 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 Knight’s Gambit that restores over four thousand words that editors cut from the stories.\n\nAlso 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 Knight’s Gambit and their place in Faulkner’s career as a short story writer.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1496842030\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.1496842030.VG\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Very Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Duvall, John N.|Faulkner, William\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Pages are clean with no markings. May show minor signs of wear or cosmetic defects  marks, cuts, bends, or scuffs  on the cover, spine, pages, or dust jacket. May have remainder marks on edges.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41383629586490,"sku":"DBV.1496842030.VG","price":8.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/1496842030-0.jpg?v=1777396989","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/knights-gambit","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}