James Branch Cabell (18791956) is best known for his tales of the imaginary land of Poictesme, where chivalry and galantry live on. All of Cabells works from before 1930 (including The Cords of Vanity, an otherwise "mainstream" novel) were assembled into the grand "Biography 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 "Mr. Cabell gives an airy chronicle of the love affairs of his hero, Robert Townsend, who has adopted "infancy" as a profession, and never gets out of boyhood. Townsend is also one of the selfhypnotized 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 facttruly a captivating liar. In this "higher 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." Edwin Markham, in N. Y. American

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