The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
A Comedy of Limitations
Fiction & Literature
| 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.
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.
