James Branch Cabell

The Eagle's Shadow (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

At Selwoode, a country house in England built by the wealthy industrialist and financier Frederick R. Woods, the young Margaret Hugonin, who stands to inherit her late uncle's fortune, lives under the shadow of the family's heraldic eagle. As daily incursions by greed-driven suitors get in the way of her one true love, Margaret is haunted by a wealth built on the suffering of others. The Eagle's Shadow is a romantic comedy that satirizes the classic marriage plot while providing a sharp cultural critique at a time when quickly made fortunes were changing America, and the world, forever.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Mint Editions
• Seitenzahl: 138
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781513272610
• Artikelnr.: 60608265

Autorenporträt

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.