James Branch Cabell

Figures of Earth

Romantic fantasy of earthly and supernatural love set in an imagined medieval realm

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James Branch Cabell
James Branch Cabell

James Branch Cabell was a celebrated ironist who created the fantastical medieval realm of Poictesme as a vehicle for his skeptical, witty commentary on human idealism and sexuality. The suppression of his novel Jurgen made him a cause célèbre.

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