My Cousin The Colonel

My Cousin The Colonel is a novel written by Thomas Bailey Aldrich. The story revolves around the life of a young man named Richard Shackford, who is the cousin of a wealthy and influential man known as the Colonel. The novel is set in the mid-19th century and explores themes such as family relationships, social status, and the impact of wealth on one's life.Richard is a struggling writer who is trying to make a name for himself in the literary world. He is envious of his cousin's wealth and status and feels inferior to him. However, as the story progresses, Richard begins to realize that the Colonel's life is not as perfect as it seems. He discovers that the Colonel is unhappy in his marriage and is struggling to come to terms with his own mortality.The novel also features a love story between Richard and his childhood sweetheart, Isabel. They reconnect after many years and begin to rekindle their relationship. However, their love is threatened by the social divide between them, as Isabel comes from a lower social class than Richard.Throughout the novel, Aldrich explores the complexities of family relationships and the impact of social status on individuals. He also delves into the themes of love, mortality, and the pursuit of happiness. My Cousin The Colonel is a timeless novel that continues to resonate with readers today.As the mint and one or two other necessary ingredients were lacking to our family stores, the idea of julep was dismissed as a vain dream, and its place supplied by iced Congress water, a liquid which my cousin characterized, in a hasty aside to me, as being a drink fit only for imbecile infants of a tender age.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.