The complete online text of The Jewel Merchants by James Branch Cabell.

The American essayist and writer of romantic fiction James Branch Cabell (1879-1958) played an important part in the battle against sexual taboos in American literature during the 1920s. James Branch Cabell was born in Richmond, Va., into an aristocratic...

Virginia-born James Branch Cabell , along with fellow Richmonder Ellen Glasgow, was one of the first voices of what would later become a rising chorus of modern southern writers. He is recognized today as a pioneering novelist and short-story writer of t...

Born and raised in Richmond, Virginia, James Branch Cabell lived a life more or less typical of a Southern gentleman of modest means and impeccable pedigree. He attended William and Mary College (1894-1898) where his precocious brilliance was generally r...

Byline: Anna Marie Kukec Harry W. Yaseen Jewelers in downtown Naperville is unlike many other fine jewelry stores. Just walk inside, and to your left, you'll see a waterfall. Real water flows down a 5-by-8-foot wall. Then your eyes focus on...

D.C. Mayor Marion Barry took a poke yesterday at some area jewelry merchants, saying they are "just as guilty of this drug epidemic as the people who sell drugs" because, he said, they accept large sums of cash for sales of gold jewelry to...