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The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck: A Comedy of Limitations
James Branch Cabell
2003
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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.
This book is included in Project Gutenberg.