Told by a garrulous narrator who loves digressions and footnotes, this long 1886 novel moves through the drawing rooms, courtships and gossip of Richmond, Virginia, in the years before secession. Stammering lovers, a friend named Jones and his girl, and a mock-musical structure of symphony movements carry the story toward the coming war.
A curious period piece of Southern comic fiction, whose view of Virginia society is very much that of an 1880s Virginian. Download the free EPUB.