The Cords of Vanity: A Comedy of Shirking

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Summary: Chivalry, Gallantry & Poetry in a Relict Leisure Class
Review: Robert Etheridge Townsend, a young writer, recounts his twelve amatory encounters on his path to a conventional life style. Within his tales, he left an account of the behaviors of members of a relict leisure class in which ancestry, snobbery and pride of place were kept alive by infusions of wealth acquired through marriages of convenience.