The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

A Comedy of Limitations

Fiction & Literature
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Author: James Branch Cabell ISBN: 9781411444348
Publisher: Barnes & Noble Publication: March 22, 2011
Imprint: Barnes & Noble Language: English
Author: James Branch Cabell
ISBN: 9781411444348
Publisher: Barnes & Noble
Publication: March 22, 2011
Imprint: Barnes & Noble
Language: English

This 1915 novel is set in Virginia in the waning years of the nineteenth century.  A marriage between an aristocratic Southern gentleman and the spoiled daughter of a businessman affords Cabell the opportunity, with lapidary grace and gently devastating irony, of skewering the chivalric illusions of the Old South.

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This 1915 novel is set in Virginia in the waning years of the nineteenth century.  A marriage between an aristocratic Southern gentleman and the spoiled daughter of a businessman affords Cabell the opportunity, with lapidary grace and gently devastating irony, of skewering the chivalric illusions of the Old South.

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