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Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
James Branch Cabell
Born: April 14, 1879
Died: May 5, 1958 (aged 79)
Bio: James Branch Cabell was an American author of fantasy fiction and belles lettres. Cabell was well regarded by his contemporaries, including H. L. Mencken, Edmund Wilson, and Sinclair Lewis.
Known for:
- Jurgen, A Comedy of Justice (1919)
- Figures of Earth (1921)
- The Cream of the Jest (1917)
- Something About Eve (1927)
- The silver stallion (1926)
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