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=== Others === Though Cabell is best known as a fantasist, the plots and characters of his first few novels, ''The Eagle's Shadow'' (1904), ''The Cords of Vanity'' (1909), and ''The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck'' (1915) (later all adapted for inclusion into the ''Biography''), do not wander out of the everyday society of Virginia's gentry. But Cabell's signature droll style is clearly in evidence, and in later printings each book would bear a characteristically Cabellian subtitle: ''A Comedy of Purse-Strings'', ''A Comedy of Shirking'', and ''A Comedy of Limitations'', respectively. His later novel, ''The First Gentleman of America: A Comedy of Conquest'' (1942), retells the strange career of an [[indigenous peoples of the Americas|American Indian]] from the shores of the [[Potomac River|Potomac]] who sailed away with Spanish explorers, later to return, be made chief of his tribe, and kill all the Spaniards in the new Virginia settlement. Cabell delivered a more concise, historical treatment of the novel's events in ''The First Virginian'', part one of his 1947 work of non-fiction, ''Let Me Lie'', a book on the history of Virginia. Other works include: * ''The Nightmare Has Triplets'' trilogy, comprising ''Smirt'' (1934), ''Smith'' (1935), and ''Smire'' (1937) * The ''Heirs and Assigns'' trilogy, comprising ''[[Hamlet Had an Uncle]]'' (1940), ''The King Was in His Counting House'' (1938), and ''The First Gentleman of America'' (1942) * The ''It Happened in Florida'' trilogy, comprising ''The St. Johns'' (written in collaboration with [[A. J. Hanna]]), ''There Were Two Pirates'' (1946), and ''The Devil's Own Dear Son'' (1949) Cabell also wrote a number of autobiographical and [[genealogy|genealogical]] works.
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