Author: CABELL, JAMES BRANCH AND CARL VAN DOREN
Title: These Restless Heads / James Branch Cabell
Description: New York, NY: Literary Guild, 1932. Reprint; 2nd Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This is a two volume set in a cardboard slipcase. The books are in Very Good+ condition and were issued without dust jackets. The books are in mostly clean, bright condition. There is some light bumping to the spine ends of the book covers. The spines and spine joints of the book covers have light fading. The text pages are clean and bright. The slipcase is in Very Good- condition and has some lightish rubbing and wear to the corners and edges. "James Branch Cabell (/'kaeb? L/; April 14, 1879 – May 5, 1958) was an American author of fantasy fiction and belles-lettres. Cabell was well-regarded by his contemporaries, including H. L. Mencken, Edmund Wilson, and Sinclair Lewis. His works were considered escapist and fit well in the culture of the 1920s, when they were most popular. For Cabell, veracity was "the one unpardonable sin, not merely against art, but against human welfare". Although escapist, Cabell's works are ironic and satirical. Mencken disputed Cabell's claim to romanticism and characterized him as "really the most acidulous of all the anti-romantics. His gaudy heroes ... Chase dragons precisely as stockbrockers play golf." According to Louis D. Rubin, Cabell saw art as an escape from life, but found that, once the artist creates his ideal world, it is made up of the same elements that make the real one. " (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ .
Keywords: Science Fiction And Fantasy Biography James Branch Cabell Carl Van Doren Short Stories
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Title: These Restless Heads / James Branch Cabell
Description: New York, NY: Literary Guild, 1932. Reprint; 2nd Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This is a two volume set in a cardboard slipcase. The books are in Very Good+ condition and were issued without dust jackets. The books are in mostly clean, bright condition. There is some light bumping to the spine ends of the book covers. The spines and spine joints of the book covers have light fading. The text pages are clean and bright. The slipcase is in Very Good- condition and has some lightish rubbing and wear to the corners and edges. "James Branch Cabell (/'kaeb? L/; April 14, 1879 – May 5, 1958) was an American author of fantasy fiction and belles-lettres. Cabell was well-regarded by his contemporaries, including H. L. Mencken, Edmund Wilson, and Sinclair Lewis. His works were considered escapist and fit well in the culture of the 1920s, when they were most popular. For Cabell, veracity was "the one unpardonable sin, not merely against art, but against human welfare". Although escapist, Cabell's works are ironic and satirical. Mencken disputed Cabell's claim to romanticism and characterized him as "really the most acidulous of all the anti-romantics. His gaudy heroes ... Chase dragons precisely as stockbrockers play golf." According to Louis D. Rubin, Cabell saw art as an escape from life, but found that, once the artist creates his ideal world, it is made up of the same elements that make the real one. " (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ .
Keywords: Science Fiction And Fantasy Biography James Branch Cabell Carl Van Doren Short Stories
Price: US$ 25.00 Seller: S. Howlett-West Books
- Book number: 50080
- Book number: 50080
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