Before rising in the ranks of the fantasy genre, American author James Branch Cabell used fiction as a way to grapple with his native country's past, present, and future, as well as with the conundrum of living as an artist in a capitalist society. The exquisitely wrought short stories collected in The Certain Hour address these themes from a number of different angles.
"Before rising in the ranks of the fantasy genre, American author James Branch Cabell used fiction as a way to grapple with his native country's past, present, and future, as well as with the conundrum of living as an artist in a capitalist society. The exquisitely wrought short stories collected in The Certain Hour address these themes from a number of different angles."@en
"This 1916 collection of ten short stories based on the works of ten imaginary poets of different epochs contains Balthazar's Daughter, which Cabell later turned into his only published play, The Jewel Merchants. The collection also features two poems and a lengthy introduction."
""The twelfth novel in The Biography of the Life of Manuel, a series that follows the life of Dom Manuel and his descendants" --Provided by publisher."@en
University of Virginia. Library. Electronic Text Center.
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