The Romantic Comedians by Ellen Glasgow

The Romantic Comedians
Ellen Glasgow
Garden City: Doubleday, Page 1926
Book of the Month Club edition
346 pages

The binding has some breaks but is in acceptable condition. The pages are clean but tanned and there is a name written on the front end paper. The cover is edge worn and faded. Good. Hardcover.

Chapter 1: For thirty-six years Judge Gamaliel Bland Honeywell had endured the double-edged bliss of a perfect marriage; but it seemed to him, on this sparking Easter Sunday, that he had lived those years with a stranger. After twelve months of loneliness, one impulse of vital magic had obliterated the past. As he arranged his tribute of lilies on Cordelia's grave, he tried with all the strength of his decorous will to remember her features and mourn for her as sincerely as she deserved.....(#0000843)