They Stooped to Folly A Comedy of Morals by Ellen Glasgow

They Stooped to Folly
Ellen Glasgow
A Comedy of Morals
Garden City: Doubleday Doran 1929
351 pages

The front hinge is broken and the binding has breaks but all pages are present. The pages are clean but tanned, the top corner of the front end paper has been cut off. The cover is faded, has a small amount of edge wear and a chip on the spine's paper label. Acceptable. Hardcover.

Chapter 1: Mr. Virginius Curle Littlepage, who had his reason apart from the weather for a melancholy view of life, stood at the window of his law office and looked out upon a depressing afternoon in November. Against blown sheets of rain his large, benign head was dimly etched by the firelight. At fifty-seven, his dark hair was still thick and only a little gray on the temples; his ruddy Georgian features were still noble in contour; and his short, well-fed figure, though a trifle stout at the waist, was still imposing in carriage. For he was one of the Virginian pillars of society that are held upright less by singleness of heart than by the firm support of woman's influence....(#0000842)