Of kings and men8/30/2023 One of the reasons for this unjustified neglect seems to be a misconception about the subject matter of this novel. Unfortunately, however, All the King's Men simply has not received the attention it richly deserves. ![]() It may rank behind the greatest of the Faulkner novels - The Sound and the Fury, Absalom, Absalom!, and perhaps Light in August - and behind Melville's magnificent epic of the sea, Moby-Dick, but it belongs among the ranks of other novels that have received more attention, novels such as The Scarlet Letter, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Great Gatsby, A Farewell to Arms, and Invisible Man. All the King's Men is, without reservation, one of the great American novels.
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