PowerOfBabel

"About these matters I do not know. How should I? But I think that all of us take part in a moving and a shifting and a reasoned using...

Early in the following morning Jurgen left Cameliard, traveling toward Carohaise, and went into the Druid forest there, and followed Merlin...

As I placed the final (and, paradoxically, the first) volume on the shelf with its fellows, I half-expected a dusty, sepia-toned ghost to a...

"None the less," observes Jurgen [a pawnbroker speaking to a monk], "it does not behoove God-fearing persons to ...

"I find my country an inadequate place to live," says Horvendile. "Oh, many persons live there happily enough! or, at worst,...

Some of the line drawings from James Branch Cabell's Jurgen (1921) by English artist Frank Cheyne Pape (there should be an accent ov...

"Indisputably the most striking defect of this modern American literature is the fact that the production of anything at all resemblin...

MIRAMON LLUAGOR : In James Branch Cabell's extensive work The Biography of Manuel , Miramon Lluagor is one of the Leshy (in Russia...

"[ Guivric ] went onward, disquieted but unhindered. And in the gray anteroom beyond, were the progenitors of Guivric disporting them...

All books are by James Branch Cabell and published by Robert M. McBride & Company. Beyond Life Gallantry Figures Of Earth The Silver S...

Figures Of Earth...James Branch Cabell...Del Rey The Silver Stallion...James Branch Cabell...Del Rey Domnei...James Branch Cabell...Del Re...

"Jonathan still had a good bit of coin left after the purchase, and he considered that it would likely be folly of some sort to return ...