Biography of the life of Manuel of Poictesme
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This fantastic work of fiction is a conversation between an author named John Chateris, and a youthful editor. The two discuss books and editions, which are not yet written, in the setting of a library — a figurative story which comments on the publishing industry, done in a masterful way.
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Figures of Earth: A Comedy of Appearances (1921) is a comic fantasy novel by James Branch Cabell. Set in a world where history and fantasy collide, where a lowly swineherd can rise to be Count of Poictesme, Figures of Earth: A Comedy of Appearances is one of Cabell's best-known works of fiction, and is included in a series of novels, essays, and poems known as the Biography of the Life of Manuel. "They of Poictesme narrate that in the old days when...
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The silver stallion , Biography of the life of Manuel of Poictesme volume 3
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Music from behind the moon , Biography of the life of Manuel of Poictesme volume 4
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The way of Ecben , Biography of the life of Manuel of Poictesme volume 5
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The white robe , Biography of the life of Manuel of Poictesme volume 6
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The soul of Melicent , Biography of the life of Manuel of Poictesme volume 7
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8) Chivalry
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Chivalry (1909) is a fascinating collection of tales that draw inspiration from the popular chronicles of medieval Europe. Author James Branch Cabell immerses his reader into this distant world, masking his authorship in order to ensure a fluidity of form and content that injects his work of high fantasy with a sense of truth.
Intentionally layered in mystery and claims of authenticity, Chivalry purports to be a copy made by royal scribe Colard Mansion...
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Duke Classics
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2014
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Jurgen, A Comedy of Justice (1919) is a comic fantasy novel by James Branch Cabell. Set in a world where history and fantasy collide, where a lowly pawnbroker can encounter monsters, gods, and devils, Jurgen, A Comedy of Justice is one of Cabell's best-known works of fiction. For several years after its initial publication, the novel was the subject of an obscenity trial pursued by the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice. In 1923, after winning...
10) The Line of Love
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The Line of Love (1913) is a collection of comic fantasy tales by James Branch Cabell. Set in a world where history and fantasy collide, where a lowly swineherd can rise to be Count of Poictesme, The Line of Love is one of Cabell's best-known works of fiction, and is included in a series of novels, essays, and poems known as the Biography of the Life of Manuel. It is a tale which they narrate in Poictesme, telling how love began between Florian de...
11) The High Place
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"In the sulphurous The High Place, the amoral hero Florian enters the sleeping-beauty story and (unlike Jurgen with Helen) does not draw back at the sight of excessive beauty. Complications ensue: Beauty is realistically diminished during pregnancy, the first-born child is forfeit to Satan under the pact that guaranteed Florain's success, and an irascible saint is eager to call down holy fire on transgressors. Florian treads close to damnation and...
12) Gallantry
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This 1907 novel is set during the reign of George II of England. Against a backdrop of intrigue and betrayal, England and France fence for advantage through such intermediaries of flesh and blood as Lady Allonby and her daughter, Dorothy, the Duke of Ormskirk, and the nefarious French nobleman, the duc de Puysange.
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Something about Eve , Biography of the life of Manuel of Poictesme volume 13
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14) The Certain Hour
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Duke Classics
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2012
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A Certain Hour (1922) is a collection of stories by James Branch Cabell. Recreating the lives of some of history's most celebrated poets, A Certain Hour is a relative outlier among Cabell's body of work, and is included in a series of novels, essays, and poems known as the Biography of the Life of Manuel. "Indisputably the most striking defect of this modern American literature is the fact that the production of anything at all resembling literature...
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Duke Classics
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2012
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American author James Branch Cabell developed into a well-known fantasy writer later in his literary career, but his early novels focused on documenting (and slyly commenting upon) the lives of the American aristocracy in the early twentieth century. The Cords of Vanity follows the travails of a troubled protagonist whose creative aspirations slowly begin to tear him apart.
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From the hidden way , Biography of the life of Manuel of Poictesme volume 16
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Duke Classics
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2014
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This 1921 play, subtitled "A Comedy in One Act," is Cabell's only published play script. The drama is based on the short story "Balthazar's Daughter" that originally appeared in Cabell's 1916 collection, The Certain Hour. In his prologue, the author confesses that the play "lacks moral fervor" and hopes it will "corrupt no reader irretrievably."
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Duke Classics
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2015
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The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck (1921) is a comic romance novel by James Branch Cabell. Set in a world, where history and fantasy collide, where the laws of chivalry and honor continue to hold sway in postbellum South, The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck is included in a series of novels, essays, and poems known as the Biography of the Life of Manuel.
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The Eagle's Shadow (1904) is the debut novel of James Branch Cabell, a master of fantasy fiction and an underrated figure of twentieth-century American literature. The novel is significant for being among few of Cabell's works to take place both around the time of its publication and to be set in the contemporary world. Like many of his works, however, it paints an intricate portrait of romance and power, immersing its reader into a fiction more real...
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The Cream of the Jest (1923) is a novel by James Branch Cabell. Set in a world, where history and fantasy collide, where a lowly pawnbroker can encounter monsters, gods, and devils, The Cream of the Jest is one work in a series of novels, essays, and poems known as the Biography of the Life of Manuel. Partly inspired by the obscenity trial surrounding his novel Jurgen, a Comedy of Justice, The Cream of the Jest is a metafictional blend of literary...
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Straws and prayer-books , Biography of the life of Manuel of Poictesme volume 21
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