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The Cords of Vanity

The Cords of Vanity

Follett, Wilson
Cabell, James Branch

Paperback

Fantasy

ISBN10: 1587154749
ISBN13: 9781587154744
Publisher: Borgo Press
Published: Jul 1 2001
Pages: 348
Weight: 1.12
Height: 0.93 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.14
Language: English
James Branch Cabell (1879-1956) is best known for his tales of the imaginary land of Poictesme, where chivalry and galantry live on. All of Cabellâ (TM)s works from before 1930 (including The Cords of Vanity, an otherwise â oemainstream⠝ novel) were assembled into the grand â oeBiography of the Life of Manuel, ⠝ the supposed redeemer of the land of Poictesme, and they form a series which follows Manuel and his descendants through the centuries. Cabell has been a favorite author of many famous writers, raniging from Lin Carter to Robert A. Heinlein. THE CORDS OF VANITY Introduction by Wilson Follett â oeMr. Cabell gives an airy chronicle of the love affairs of his hero, Robert Townsend, who has adopted â oeinfancy⠝ as a profession, and never gets out of boyhood. Townsend is also one of the self-hypnotized persons who, in the moment of saying it, believes everything that he says, and thus romances alluringly of himself with no regard to the fetters of factâ truly a captivating liar. In this â oehigher carelessness⠝ all his contradictions and repetitions are merged into a fine unity. By playing at emotion so long he finally breaks down the inward integrities, so that he is not able to realize when he is acting a part and when he is sincere. And his sin overtakes him in the circumstance that, having played at love so long, he finally is not able to love anybody in reality.⠝ â Edwin Markham, in N. Y. American

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