Последние издания книг Джеймса Брэнча Кейбелла

Excerpt from Taboo: A Legend Retold From the Dirghic of S?vius Nicanor, With Prolegomena, Notes, and a Preliminary Memoir

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It is a tribute, however trivial, which serves at least to express my appreciation of your zeal in re-establishing what seemed to the less optimistic a lost cause. I may to-day confess without much embarrassment that after fifteen years of foiled endeavors my (various) publishers and I had virtually decided that the printing of my books was not likely ever to come under the head of a business venture, but was more properly describable as a rather costly form of dissipation. People here and there would praise, but until you, unsolicited, had volunteered to make me known to the general public, nobody seemed appreciably moved to purchase.

Here are ten short stories, written around the works of ten poets, plus two poems and a lengthy introduction by Cabell. Of note is "Balthazar's Daughter," which became the basis for James Branch Cabell's only published play, The Jewel Merchants. Although their relationship to Poictesme is tenuous at best, Cabell stated that his more mainstream historical works, such as these, were not to be distinguished from the fantasies and so placed this volume is officially part of the chronology of his imaginary Poictesme.

Something About Eve, an entry in the Poictesme series, "shows its non-hero feebly intending to gain promised glory awaiting in the land of 'Antan' but forever delayed on Mispec Moor (anagram: 'Compromise'), wearing literal rose-colored spectacles and beguiled by the woman Maya, while bolder folk like Solomon and Odysseus pass by on the road to Antan." -The Encyclopedia of Fantasy

Джеймс Брэч Кейбелл (1879-1958 гг.) - писатель, незаслуженно забытый в наши дни, однако в свое время считавшийся одним из ведущих мастеров американской "литературной легенды" первой половины XX в. Кейбелл создал немало произведений, однако наибольшую известность ему принесла масштабная и изысканная фэнтези-сага "Сказание о Мануэле" - сага, одну из лучших книг которой мы предлагаем вам!

Straws and Prayer-Books, one of the least well known entries in the Poictesme series, consists of collected shorter works.

Настоящее издание - вторая часть знаменитой эпопеи Джеймса Брэнча Кейбелла `Сказание о Мануэле`. Во второй том `Сказаний` вошли книги `Серебряный жеребец` (1926), `Domnei` (1913), `Музыка с Той Стороны Луны` (1926), и `Белые одежды` (1928). Читателя вновь ждет встреча с необыкновенными героями Кейбелла - кентаврами, норнами, великанами и драконами, вновь ожидают странствия по загадочной стране Пуактесм.

`Сказание о Мануэле` - знаменитая эпопея одного из основателей жанра фэнтэзи американского литератора Джеймса Брэнча Кэйбелла.
Мы начинаем знакомство со `Сказанием о Мануэле` с публикации двух романов: `Земляные фигуры` (1921) и `Юрген` (1919).
Первый том `Сказаний` знакомит читателя с удивительной страной Пуактесм, где рядом со средневековыми замками бродят кентавры, в лесных озерах живут русалки, где хитроумные демоны всячески пытаются сбить с пути истинного честных и благородных рыцарей.
Яркая палитра повествования, невероятные приключения главных героев, неподражаемый юмор и утонченная стилистика - все это читатель найдет на страницах `Сказания о Мануэле`.

"In the sulphurous The High Place, the amoral hero Florian enters the sleeping-beauty story and (unlike Jurgen with Helen) does not draw back at the sight of excessive beauty. Complications ensue: Beauty is realistically diminished during pregnancy, the first-born child is forfeit to Satan under the pact that guaranteed Florain's success, and an irascible saint is eager to call down holy fire on transgressors. Florian treads close to damnation and is saved only when Satan and the angel Michael conspire to let recent events become, again, a dream: he has a rare second chance and learns better." -- The Encyclopedia of Fantasy

One of the most-talked-about works of the 1920s, this compelling fantasy recounts the odyssey of a middle-aged pawnbroker who regains his youth for a year of amorous adventures. Jurgen's allegorical journey leads through a supernatural dreamscape to romances with Guenevere and The Lady of the Lake and confrontations with God and the Devil.

This edition of Cabell's witty and irreverent landmark of modern fiction contains the full text of the revised and definitive version of 1926, together with 13 striking full-page illustrations by Frank Papé.

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