The cabala
By: by Thornton Wilder, introduction by Herbert Gorman.
Contributors: Gorman, Herbert Sherman, 1893-1954.
Series: The Modern Library of the world's best books
Publisher: The Modern Library
Published: 1929
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
Description: In Wilder's first novel, The Cabala (1926), Samuele, an American student, spends a year in the fabulously decadent world of post-World War I Rome. He experiences first-hand the waning days of a secret community--a "cabala" composed of decaying European royalty, eccentric expatriate Americans, even a great cardinal of the Roman Church. The vivid portraits he paints of these characters, whom he views as the vestigial representatives of the gods and goddesses of Ancient Rome, launched Thornton Wilder's career as a celebrated storyteller and literary stylist. --ww.thorntonwilder.com.
Notes: "First Modern Library edition."