title: The Last Gentleman: A Novel
author:  Walker Percy 
description: Brilliant...It shimmers with the chaste and civilized ornaments of irony, understatement, and compassion. <i>Time</i>
zlib_text: > > WALKER PERCY was born in Alabama. He received a B.A. from the University
  > of North Carolina and attended Columbia University’s College of Physicians
  > and Surgeons. There, in Upper West Side theaters, he indulged a passion for
  > cinema that would later surface in the tension between movie illusion and
  > everyday reality in his fictional creations. He contracted TB while
  > performing autopsies at Bellevue Hospital and was sent to convalesce in the
  > Adirondack Mountains, where he began the process of becoming a prose artist.
  > He is the author of the non-fiction work THE MESSAGE IN THE BOTTLE and other
  > novels LANCELOT, THE LAST GENTLEMAN, THE SECOND COMING, LOVE IN THE RUIN,
  > and THE MOVIEGOER, which won the 1962 National Book Award.
  
  
  
  
  
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  Walker Percy
  
  LANCELOT
  
  THE LAST GENTLEMAN
  
  LOVE IN THE RUINS
  
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