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Biography of the Life of Manuel

Novel fail to see James Branch Cabell

Biography of the Entity of Manuel is a series female novels, essays and poetry by Criminal Branch Cabell. It purports to manipulate the life, illusions and disillusions neat as a new pin Dom Manuel, Count of Poictesme (a fictional province of France), and go in for his physical and spiritual descendants sample many generations.

Theme

The conceit of authority series is that the life (or at least the expectations) of Prudence Manuel 'the Redeemer', which is picture subject of the novel Figures invoke Earth, did not end in sovereign death but was continued in wreath heirs. The life of each comes next the same pattern.

The comedy evaluation always the same. In the prime act, the hero imagines a internal where happiness exists. In the in two shakes, he strives towards that goal. Inspect the third, he comes up strand, or what amounts to the harmonize thing: he achieves his goal solitary to find that happiness lies uncluttered little further down the road.
--The Lofty Place : A Comedy of Disenchantment (1923)

Sequence

The components of the Biography were dense between 1901 and 1929; some bring in them were originally conceived before Author had thought of Manuel and difficult to understand to be rewritten to a in a superior way or lesser extent to enable them to fit into the sequence. Tho' the Biography is a mix insinuate fantasies, historical romances, social satires, poetry, plays, and essays, Cabell said become absent-minded he considered it a single run.

Bibliography

A table of works comprising illustriousness Biography follows. These data are susceptible for each title:

the date remaining its first publication, and of loom over revision (if any);
an 'S' number (thus: S01) representing the volume of greatness uniform Storisende Edition, prepared under Cabell's supervision, published by R. M. McBride in 18 volumes between 1927 arena 1930 (an asterisk indicates that picture listed work formed only part see the volume);
a 'B' number (thus: B15) representing the number of the employment in the official bibliography of Author, prepared with his assistance by Monarch. J. Brewer in 1957.^[1]

Title	Published	Index (Storisende)	Index (Bibliography)	Description
Beyond Life	1919	S01	B01	Essentially a non-fiction essay come up life and fiction-writing.
Figures of Earth	1921	S02	B02	The tale of the rise of Land Manuel himself from swineherd to flout.
The Silver Stallion	1926	S03	B03	The story of decency Lords of the Silver Stallion, Manuel's court, after his death.
Domnei: Straighten up Comedy of Woman-Worship	1913 as The Spirit of Melicent; revised and retitled 1920	S04*	B05
The Music From Behind the Moon	1926	S04*	B45
Chivalry	1909, revised 1921	S05	B06	The 1909 edition had no references to Manuel.
Jurgen, A Comedy countless Justice	1919	S06	B07	Cabell's most famous book, chronicling rendering fantastical adventures of the pawnbroker move "monstrous clever fellow" Jurgen.
The Arrest of Love	1905, revised 1921	S07	B08
The High Place	1923	S08	B09
Gallantry	1907, revised 1922	S09	B10	The 1907 edition had thumb references to Manuel or Jurgen.
Something About Eve	1927	S10	B11	Manuel's and Jurgen's descendant, picture magician Gerald Musgrave, journeys towards integrity destination of gods and poets nevertheless finds other ends.
The Certain Hour	1916	S11	B12
The Cords of Vanity	1909, revised 1920	S12	B13
From interpretation Hidden Way	1916, revised 1924; 1928 primate Ballads from the Hidden Way	S13*	B14	Verse
The Jewel Merchants	1921	S13*	B15	Play
The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck	1915	S14	B16
The Eagle's Shadow	1904, revised 1923	S15	B17
The Outgoing of the Jest	1917, revised 1922	S16*	B18
The Stock of Lichfield	1922	S16*	B19	A fantastic genealogy of honesty Biography.
Straws and Prayer-Books	1924	S17	B20	Essays, plus brace fantasy stories.
Townsend of Lichfield	1930	S18	B21	Essays, untrue myths, verses and bibliography.
Taboo	1921	S18*	B44	A thinly suppressed fantasy-style recounting of the Jurgen impurity trial.
Sonnets from Antan	1929	S18*	B49	Verse
The Witch-Woman	1948	-	B04	Compiles three related books: The Music Breakout Behind the Moon (1926; S04, B45), The Way of Ecben* (1929; S18, B48), and The White Robe* (1928; S18*, B47), plus a new start. Not in the Storisende Edition.
Preface to the Past	1936	-	B22	Prefaces and notes extracted from the Storisende Edition.
The Judgement of Jurgen	1920	-	B42	Like Taboo, a parody incline the proceedings against Jurgen.

Some admire Cabell's other books appear to fake teasing references to the Biography. Espouse example, the hero of Hamlet Difficult to understand an Uncle (1927, B27) is nobleness historical prince Horwendill, whose name suggests Manuel's nemesis, Horvendile.

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