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This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery. Preface by Joseph Hergesheimer; Critical c… more

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

Imprimis, as concerns the authenticity of these tales perhaps the less debate may be the higher wisdom, if only because this Nicolas de Caen, by common report, was never a Gradgrindian. And in this volume in particular, writing it (as Nicol… more

From the preface:It would be absorbing to discover the present feminine attitude toward the profoundest compliment ever paid women by the heart and mind of men in league—the worshipping devotion conceived by Plato and elevated to a living … more

Ballad of the Double-SoulL es Dieux, qui trop aiment ses faceties cruelles” PAUL VERVILLE. In the beginning the Gods made man, and fashioned the sky and the sea, And the earth’s fair face for man’s dwelling-place, and this was the Gods’ dec… more

Imprimis, as concerns the authenticity of these tales perhaps the less debate may be the higher wisdom, if only because this Nicolas de Caen, by common report, was never a Gradgrindian. And in this volume in particular, writing it (as Nicol… more

DomneiA Comedy of Woman-WorshipByJAMES BRANCH CABELL1920”En cor gentil domnei per mort no passa.”TOSARAH READ McADAMSIN GRATITUDE AND AFFECTION”The complication of opinions and ideas, of affections and habits,which prompted the chevalier … more

THE QUEEN PEDAUQUEANATOLE FRANCETranslated by JOS. A. V. STRITZKOIntroduction by JAMES BRANCH CABELL I. Why I recount the singular Occurrences of my Life II. My Home at the Queen Pedauque Cookshop—I turn the Spit and learn to read—Entry o… more

The desire to write perfectly of beautiful happenings is, as the saying runs, old as the hills—and as immortal. Questionless, there was many a serviceable brick wasted in Nineveh because finicky persons must needs be deleting here and there… more

Cabell’s eighth (and best-known) book, Jurgen, A Comedy of Justice (1919), was the subject of a celebrated obscenity case shortly after its publication. The eponymous hero, who considers himself a “monstrous clever fellow”, embarks on a jou… more

In one of the charming essays wherein Anatole France narrates the adventures of his soul I find these words: “It is good to be reasonable and to love only the true; yet there are hours when common reality no longer satisfies and one … more

For no short while my indebtedness to you has been such as to require some sort of public acknowledgment, which may now, I think, be tendered most appropriately by inscribing upon the dedication page of this small volume the name to which y… more

“Nightly I mark and praise, or great or small, Such stars as proudly struggle one by one To heaven’s highest place, as Procyon, Antarês, Naös, Tejat and Nibal Attain supremacy, and proudly fall, Still glorious, and glitter, and are gone So … more