James Branch Cabell

Gebundenes Buch

The Jewel Merchants

A Comedy in One Act

Beschreibung

Roaming the beautiful hills of Tuscany, Graciosa, daughter of Balthazar Valori, encounters a humble jewel merchant. Looking over his wares, they begin discussing the death of her cousin Cibo at the hands of Alessandro de Medici, Duke of Florence. The Jewel Merchants: A Comedy in One Act is a play by James Branch Cabell.

Autor

James Branch Cabell (1879-1958) was an American writer of escapist and fantasy fiction. Born into a wealthy family in the state of Virginia, Cabell attended the College of William and Mary, where he graduated in 1898 following a brief personal scandal. His first stories began to be published, launching a productive decade in which Cabell's worked appeared in both Harper's Monthly Magazine and The Saturday Evening Post. Over the next forty years, Cabell would go on to publish fifty-two books, many of them novels and short-story collections. A friend, colleague, and inspiration for such writers as Ellen Glasgow, H.L. Mencken, Sinclair Lewis, and Theodore Dreiser, James Branch Cabell is remembered as an iconoclastic pioneer of fantasy literature.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Mint Editions
• Seitenzahl: 34
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. August 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798888973271
• Artikelnr.: 68586249