American author James Branch Cabell developed into a well-known fantasy writer later in his literary career, but his early novels focused on documenting (and slyly commenting upon) the lives of the American aristocracy in the early twentieth century. The Cords of Vanity follows the travails of a troubled protagonist whose creative aspirations slowly begin to tear him apart.
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- THE CORDS OF VANITY
- Contents
- An Introduction
- The Prologue
- 1 - He Sits Out a Dance
- 2 - He Loves Extensively
- 3 - He Earns a Stick-Pin
- 4 - He Talks with Charteris
- 5 - He Revisits Fairhaven and the Play
- 6 - He Chats Over a Hedge
- 7 - He Goes Mad in a Garden
- 8 - He Duels with a Stupid Woman
- 9 - He Puts His Tongue in His Cheek
- 10 - He Samples New Emotions
- 11 - He Postures Among Chimney-Pots
- 12 - He Faces Himself and Remembers
- 13 - He Baits Upon the Journey
- 14 - He Participates in a Brave Jest
- 15 - He Decides to Amuse Himself
- 16 - He Seeks for Copy
- 17 - He Provides Copy
- 18 - He Spends an Afternoon in Arden
- 19 - He Plays the Improvident Fool
- 20 - He Dines Out, Impeded by Superstitions
- 21 - He is Urged to Desert His Galley
- 22 - He Cleans the Slate
- 23 - He Reviles Destiny and Climbs a Wall
- 24 - He Reconciles Sentiment and Reason
- 25 - He Advances in the Attack on Selwoode
- 26 - He Assists in the Diversion of Birds
- 27 - He Calls, and Counsels, and Considers
- 28 - He Participates in Sundry Confidences
- 29 - He Allows the Merits of Imperfection
- 30 - He Gilds the Weather-Vane
- The Epilogue - Which Suggests that Second Thoughts—
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