James Branch Cabell

Gebundenes Buch

The Cords of Vanity

A Comedy of Shirking

Beschreibung

The Civil War has come and gone, but the old guard of Lichfield continue to live as though little has changed. Robert Townsend, born into a prominent Southern family, is a young man who spend his days spinning tall tales of chivalry and astonishing acts of heroism. The Cords of Vanity is a novel by James Branch Cabell.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Mint Editions
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. August 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798888973301
• Artikelnr.: 68591001