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The Romantic Comedians
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Classic FictionGeneral Fiction
ISBN13: 9781025962665
Publisher: Tradd Street Press
Published: Feb 14 2026
Pages: 358
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.74 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
The Romantic Comedians is a sophisticated and biting social satire set in the fictional city of Queenborough, a stand-in for the traditional society of Richmond, Virginia. The novel follows Judge Gamaliel Bland Honeywell, a distinguished sixty-five-year-old widower who, after decades of a stable and conventional marriage, finds himself unexpectedly swept up in the pursuit of youthful passion. His subsequent marriage to the restless and vibrant Annabel Upchurch, a woman forty years his junior, serves as the catalyst for a sharp-witted exploration of the gap between Victorian-era decorum and the changing moral landscape of the 1920s.
Ellen Glasgow masterfully dissects the illusions of the Southern aristocracy, contrasting the Judge's romanticized self-deception with the harsh realities of age and shifting social values. Through ironical prose and keen psychological insight, The Romantic Comedians examines the folly of attempting to reclaim youth and the inevitable friction between traditional codes of conduct and modern desire. As one of Glasgow's most celebrated works of social comedy, it remains a poignant and humorous study of human vanity and the complexities of the human heart in a world undergoing rapid transformation.
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