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The Eagle's Shadow: Available Copies

Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.35

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New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

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pp. 140

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Hardcover. The Eagle's Shadow (1904) is the debut novel of James Branch Cabell, a master of fantasy fiction and an underrated figure of twentieth-century American literature. The novel is significant for being among few of Cabell's works to take place both around the time of its publication and to be set in the contemporary world. Like many of his works, however, it paints an intricate portrait of romance and power, immersing its reader into a fiction more real than they'd care to admit.Most of the novel's action occurs at Selwoode, a recently built mansion located in the English countryside. Following the death of her uncle Frederick, Margaret Hugonin finds herself his unlikely heiress, and is thrust into a life she could not have prepared for even if she had managed to imagine it in the first place. As she faces down suitor after suitor while enduring a routine of lessons on philanthropy, culture, and charity, she navigates the complexities of her love for Billy Woods, her cousin through marriage and the nephew of Selwoode's deceased scion, Frederick. Throughout the story, the eagle-both Frederick's chosen heraldic animal and a symbol of power-looms over their relationship. The ill-gotten nature of the family fortune-acquired through the exploitation enabled by imperialism and solidified in the shadows of Wall Street-threatens to destroy not only their love, but their entire world. The Eagle's Shadow, a novel at times tragic and comedic, is a brilliant and bold social critique masquerading as romance, and a literary work for all time.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 The Eagle's Shadow, 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.This edition of James Branch Cabell's The Eagle's Shadow is a classic of comedy and romance reimagined for modern readers.Since our inception in 2020, Mint Editions has kept sustainability and innovation at the forefront of our mission. Each and every Mint Edition title gets a fresh, professionally typeset manuscript and a dazzling new cover, all while maintaining the integrity of the original book.With thousands of titles in our collection, we aim to spotlight diverse public domain works to help them find modern audiences. Mint Editions celebrates a breadth of literary works, curated from both canonical and overlooked classics from writers around the globe. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Print on Demand pp. 140

good cover and spine. gold gilt illustration to bottom right corner of front cover. faded gold gilt lettering to spine. clean endpapers. pencil writing to top right corner of first endpage by a previous owner. deckeling to edges. pages are clean. DATE PUBLISHED: 1923 EDITION: 280

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138 pages. 8.00x5.00x0.43 inches. In Stock.

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