More from James Branch Cabell

  1. Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice online at Universtity of Virginia
  2. Cabell certainly doesn't take himself too seriously. I enjoyed Figures of Earth a lot; its humour was so enjoyably sophisticated that I had…
  3. Ideal Beauty, Ideal Love, and a Dream World belong to the romanticist. And it is through his concepts of these terms and the exercise of hi…
  4. I am amazed that this remarkable and original talent has been at America's service for nearly twenty years, its patient waiting entirely un…
  5. I had not been two weeks in the United States before someone said to me: 'Well, at any rate, there is Cabell.' That was a new name to me. I…
  6. If the poets and warriors who make up the list of Mr. Cabell's heroes devote their lives almost wholly to love, it is for the reason that n…
  7. Of all the fine places in the world where beautiful happenings come together, Mr. Cabell argues, incomparably the richest is in the conscio…
  8. Poor and naked as this aspiring ape must seem to the eye of reason, asks Mr. Cabell, is there not something magnificent about his imagining…

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