Lord Vanity

Samuel Shellabarger

ISBN 10: 0100100937 / ISBN 13: 9780100100930

Published by Little, Brown January 1953, 1953

About this Item

Family-owned bookshop in Steubenville, Ohio. Books shipped within 24 hours. Rough-cut page edges tanned. No marks or writing observed in text. Binding square. Dust cover worn with several small tears on edges.

Seller Inventory # 62878

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Lord Vanity
• Publisher: Little, Brown January 1953
• Publication Date: 1953
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0100100937
• ISBN 13: 9780100100930
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: Book Club.
• Printing: Book Club
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature

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Synopsis

Richard Morandi (also known as Richard Hammond) is the illegitimate son of an English lord who lives in Venice with his ballerina mother. He makes his living as an actor and musician, but when he stabs a Venetian of greater rank in self-defense – an act considered both cowardly and unmannerly – he is condemned to life as a galley slave and is severed from all he knows. When unexpectedly freed, he begins a new series of adventures first in London and later Bath, the American colonies, Canada, and Paris. Unclear about who is he and what he wants to be, he dabbles in many guises – a soldier, a gentleman, an opportunist seeking power and position – all the while feeling dissatisfied with his life and struggling to find a unifying principle.