Gallantry - Cabell, James Branch
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At Tunbridge Wells, 18th century England's social and political elite cross paths with some of the era's most notorious rakes and dandies. In this fascinating book, Cabell recreates that age of excess with stunning imagery and characters seemingly drawn from life itself. Gallantry is a collection of comic fantasy tales by James Branch Cabell.

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At Tunbridge Wells, 18th century England's social and political elite cross paths with some of the era's most notorious rakes and dandies. In this fascinating book, Cabell recreates that age of excess with stunning imagery and characters seemingly drawn from life itself. Gallantry is a collection of comic fantasy tales by James Branch Cabell.
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James Branch Cabell (1879-1958) was an American writer of escapist and fantasy fiction. Born into a wealthy family in the state of Virginia, Cabell attended the College of William and Mary, where he graduated in 1898 following a brief personal scandal. His first stories began to be published, launching a productive decade in which Cabell's worked appeared in both Harper's Monthly Magazine and The Saturday Evening Post. Over the next forty years, Cabell would go on to publish fifty-two books, many of them novels and short-story collections. A friend, colleague, and inspiration for such writers as Ellen Glasgow, H.L. Mencken, Sinclair Lewis, and Theodore Dreiser, James Branch Cabell is remembered as an iconoclastic pioneer of fantasy literature.