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Iole

by Robert W. Chambers

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1905
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89
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Briggs arrives at a lonely railway station to deal with a poet's troubled property, only to hear a local account of artistic ambition gone wrong. Guilford's woodland community once sold finely bound books and elaborate furniture. Now the workshops have closed, wages have gone unpaid, and a mortgage threatens his house. Robert W. Chambers turns this business predicament into comedy about the distance between lofty ideals and the practical work of keeping an enterprise alive.

Elsewhere, Lissa and Harrow discuss art, happiness and the books her father allows her to read. Her eagerness for stories of contemporary life meets his excited recommendations, and their literary conversation becomes increasingly affectionate. Published in 1905, Iole combines a failed arts venture with jokes about fashionable taste and competing ideas of good writing. Its appeal lies in the collision of solemn cultural pronouncements with everyday feelings and financial pressures.

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Robert W. Chambers

Robert W. Chambers (1865-1933) was an American artist turned prolific author of romance and adventure fiction. He is remembered almost entirely for the early horror tales of The King in Yellow, whose influence on supernatural and cosmic-horror writing far outlasted his popular novels.

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First published
1905
Reading time
About 100 minutes
Pages
89
Language
English
Genre
Satire
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