Author: James Branch CabellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice
The Silver Stallion
Author: James Branch CabellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Comedy
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Satiric and symbolic romance in which Manuel's widow institutes the cult of the Redeemer of Poictesme.
Domnei
Author: James Branch CabellJurgen: a Comedy of Justice Illustrated
Author: James Branch CabellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Jurgen, A Comedy of Justice is a fantasy novel by American writer James Branch Cabell, which gained fame (or notoriety) shortly after its publication in 1919. It is a humorous romp through a medieval cosmos, including a send-up of Arthurian legend, and excursions to Heaven and Hell as in The Divine Comedy. Cabell's work is recognized as a landmark in the creation of the comic fantasy novel, influencing Terry Pratchett and many others.
Let Me Lie
Author: James Branch CabellPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813920436
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
When Let Me Lie was first published in 1947, most reviewers missed the double meaning of the book's title. Deaf to James Branch Cabell's many-layered ironic wit, they read the book as a paean to the old South. Readers of this new paperback edition are unlikely to repeat the mistake. Let Me Lie is indeed a carefully researched and brilliantly written historical narrative of Virginia from 1559 to 1946--focusing on Tidewater, Richmond, and the Northern Neck--but as a fictional scholar remarks in the book, Cabell's history is "both accurate and injudicious." Virginia's story of itself, Cabell claims, depends on illusion and myth, and his skill as a satirist allows him to construct and deflate these myths simultaneously. Ranging from Don Luis de Velasco and Captain John Smith to Edgar Allan Poe and Ellen Glasgow, from Confederate heroes to the oddities of the post-Civil War Old Dominion, Let Me Lie remains compulsively readable, as history, entertainment, or both.
Figures of Earth
Author: James Branch CabellPublisher: Standard Ebooks
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Figures of Earth is the second installment in James Branch Cabell’s Biography of the Life of Manuel, set in the imaginary province of Poictesme. Young Manuel is a simple, well-liked swineherd who is often seen continually reshaping a small figure he made from the marsh clay from the pool of Haranton. One day, a stranger appears and tells Manuel of an adventure to save the Count of Arnaye’s daughter from a wizard who carried her off to the gray mountain called Vraidex. Manuel accepts this adventure (and many more that follow)—and his life will never be the same. The book was originally published in 1921 and was dedicated to “six most gallant champions,” each of whom were real persons who came to Cabell’s defense during the legal battle over alleged obscenity in his previous novel, Jurgen. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.
Something about Eve
Author: James Branch CabellThe Rivet in Grandfather's Neck
Author: James Branch CabellPublisher:
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Category : Middle Ages
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Branchiana
Author: C.J. BranchPublisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5875147784
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
The Certain Hour
Author: James Branch CabellPublisher: The Floating Press
ISBN: 1775459721
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
Before rising in the ranks of the fantasy genre, American author James Branch Cabell used fiction as a way to grapple with his native country's past, present, and future, as well as with the conundrum of living as an artist in a capitalist society. The exquisitely wrought short stories collected in The Certain Hour address these themes from a number of different angles.