World enough and time: A romantic novel

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In the admixture of wilderness and elegant society that was 1826 Kentucky Jeremiah Beaumont a brilliant imaginative lawyer stood trial for murdering his benefactor and father figure the politician Colonel Cassius Fort. Now all the documents are in hand to reconstruct Beaumonts life story - his crime his trial his ultimate sin and punishment - and the historian-narrator of World Enough and Time sets about doing just that. He uncovers a burning idealists search for purpose and his rabid rejection like other great Promethean heroes of the American mythology of conventional heroism. Based on the famous murder case known as the Kentucky Tragedy World Enough in Time is like its precursor All the Kings Men a fictional wonder that personifies history philosophy politics and passion.