Author:James Branch Cabell

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James Branch Cabell
(1879–1958)

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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 best-known book, Jurgen, A Comedy of Justice (1919), was the subject of a celebrated obscenity case shortly after its publication.

Works

The Eagle's Shadow (1904) IA
The Line of Love (1905) illustrated by Howard Pyle IA
Branchiana; being a partial account of the Branch family in Virginia (1907) non-fiction IA
Gallantry; an eighteenth century dizain in ten comedies (1907) Illustrated by Howard Pyle IA
The Cords of Vanity; a comedy of shirking (1909) IA'
Chivalry: illustrated (1909) short stories IA
The Soul of Melicent (1913) IA
The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck: A comedy of limitations (1915) IA
The Majors and their marriages (1915) IA
The Certain Hour (Dizain des poëtes) (1916) IA
From the Hidden Way: Being Seventy-five Adaptations in Verse (1916) IA
The Cream of the Jest; a comedy of evasions (1917) IA (transcription project)
Jurgen, A Comedy of Justice (1919) IA
Domnei: a comedy of woman-worship (1920) IA
The Judging of Jurgen (1920) IA
Figures of Earth: a comedy of appearances (1921) IA
The Jewel Merchants: a comedy in one act (1921) IA
Beyond Life: Dizain Des Demiurges (1921) IA
Taboo; a legend retold from the Dirghic of Sævius Nicanor (1921) IA
Joseph Hergesheimer, an essay in interpretation (1921) IA
The lineage of Lichfield; an essay in eugenics (1922) IA

Individual short stories and articles

' "As the Coming of Dawn",' (ss) The Smart Set, Sep 1902
"The Castle of Content," in Harper's Monthly Magazine, Aug 1903
"The Conspiracy of Arnaye," in Harper's Monthly Magazine, Jun 1903
"The Husbands' Comedy," (novelette) The Smart Set, Jun 1903
"An Incarnation of Helen," (ss) The Smart Set, Oct 1902
"In Necessity's Mortar," (ss) Harper's Magazine, Oct 1904
"In the Second April," (ss) Harper's Magazine, Apr-May 1907
"A Note on Alcoves" in The Novel of Tomorrow: and the Scope of Fiction (1922) by Twelve American Novelists^[1]
"Porcelain Cups," in Prize Stories of 1919 (1920)
"The Soul of Mervisaunt" (ss) Harper's Monthly Magazine, Apr 1911
"The Story of Stella," (ss) The Smart Set, Aug 1903
"The Ultimate Master," (ss) Harper's Magazine, Nov 1908

Tales retold from the French of Nicolas De Caen

"The Housewife, (ss) Harper's Magazine, Aug 1906
"The Navarrese, (ss) Harper's Magazine, Aug 1906
"The Rat-Trap," (ss) Harper's Magazine, Dec 1907
"The Satraps," (ss) Harper's Magazine, Apr 1909
"The Tenson," (ss) Harper's Magazine, Dec 1906

About Cabell or his works

The Art of James Branch Cabell (1920) by Hugh Walpole IA
A Bibliographic Check-list of the Works of James Branch Cabell, 1904-1921 (1921; 250 copies, limited edition), by Merle Johnson, 1874-1935 IA
Jurgen and the law (1923) edited by Guy Holt
Philosophy of James Branch Cabell (1931), by Alfred Andrews
The Theory of Literature of James Branch Cabell (1966) by Charles Farrell Gray

↑ By Samuel Hopkins Adams, Mary Austin, James Branch Cabell, Floyd Dell, Waldo Frank, Joseph Hergesheimer, Robert Herrick, Harvey J. O'Higgins, Henry Kitchell Webster, Edith Franklin Wyatt

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1930.

This author died in 1958, so works by this author are in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 66 years or less. These works may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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[1] By Samuel Hopkins Adams, Mary Austin, James Branch Cabell, Floyd Dell, Waldo Frank, Joseph Hergesheimer, Robert Herrick, Harvey J. O'Higgins, Henry Kitchell Webster, Edith Franklin Wyatt

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