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Gallantry (Paperback)
Loot Price: R275
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Gallantry (Paperback)
Series: Mint Editions
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Loot Price R275
Discovery Miles 2 750
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Gallantry (1922) is a collection of comic fantasy tales by James
Branch Cabell. Set in a fictionalized version of 18th century
England, Gallantry is a relative outlier among Cabell's body of
work, and is included in a series of novels, essays, and poems
known as the Biography of the Life of Manuel. "We begin at a time
when George the Second was permitting Ormskirk and the Pelhams to
govern England, and the Jacobites had not yet ceased to hope for
another Stuart Restoration, and Mr. Washington was a promising
young surveyor in the most loyal colony of Virginia." Moving away
from his usual setting of 13th century France, Cabell transports
his favorite themes of aristocratic life and romance to the
tumultuous world of 18th century England. As the country rebuilds
following a period of civil war, famine, and disease, its wealthy
elite enjoy an existence of ease at Tunbridge Wells, a legendary
spa town on the outskirts of London. Gallantry is a captivating
collection of tales from a historical period not so different from
our own. Cabell's work has long been described as escapist, his
novels and stories derided as fantastic and obsessive recreations
of a world lost long ago. To read Gallantry, however, is to
understand that the issues therein-the struggle for power, the
unspoken distance between men and women-were vastly important not
only at the time of its publication, but in our own, divisive
world. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset
manuscript, this edition of James Branch Cabell's Gallantry is a
classic of fantasy and romance reimagined for modern readers.
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