Day: August 14, 2018

  • The Reivers

    Faulkner’s final novel The Reivers, written in 1962, is something of an uncharacteristic masterpiece. The narrator, Lucius Priest, is an old man recounting adventures from when he was an eleven-year-old boy, in 1905, just as automobiles first arrived in Jefferson, Mississippi. His grandfather, Boss Priest, who owns one of the few cars then in existence, goes […]