The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck (Barnes & Noble Digital Library): A Comedy of Limitations

by James Branch Cabell

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781411444348
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble
Publication date:	03/22/2011
Series:	Barnes & Noble Digital Library
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	372
File size:	408 KB
Age Range:	3 Months to 18 Years

About the Author

James Branch Cabell (1879-1958) wrote belles lettres and fantasy fiction. Most popular in the 1920s, his escapist literature was well regarded by respected authors of his time. He lived by his quote in The Silver Stallion, "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true."