The Way of Edben: A Comedietta Involving a Gentleman by James Branch Cabell (HQ92)

Published 1929: First Edition / Hardcover / Very Good Condition / Illustrated throughout

Original black cloth with blue titles on the cover and spine and original decorated dust jacket. 209 very clean and bright pages, mild speckled foxing on the endpapers and edges. Boards slightly rubbed with time. The dust jacket is slightly rubbed with time and chipped along the edges consistent with age but remains intact.(HQ92)

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James Branch Cabell was an American author of fantasy fiction and belles lettres. Cabell was well regarded by his contemporaries, including H. L. Mencken, Edmund Wilson, and Sinclair Lewis. His works were considered escapist and fit well in the culture of the 1920s, when they were most popular. For Cabell, veracity was "the one unpardonable sin, not merely against art, but against human welfare."

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 May 2005
Format: Paperback
Brilliant! Brillaint! Brilliant! to those familiar with the Biography of Manuel, probably a puff of wind to those who are not.
The whole Biography is mischievously summed up in this slim volume, which is a fantasy written in the chivalrous mode.
Here again we meet Horvendile and Ettarre. It begins as a sparsely written fantasy of other people entirely, and ends with Mr Cabells goodbye to the Biography. Farewell Ettarre!

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