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The Certain Hour (Paperback)
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The Certain Hour (Paperback)
Series: Mint Editions
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Loot Price R218
Discovery Miles 2 180
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A Certain Hour (1922) is a collection of stories by James Branch
Cabell. Recreating the lives of some of history's most celebrated
poets, A Certain Hour is a relative outlier among Cabell's body of
work, and is included in a series of novels, essays, and poems
known as the Biography of the Life of Manuel. "Indisputably the
most striking defect of this modern American literature is the fact
that the production of anything at all resembling literature is
scarcely anywhere apparent. Innumerable printing-presses, instead,
are turning out a vast quantity of reading-matter, the candidly
recognized purpose of which is to kill time, and which-it has been
asserted, though perhaps too sweepingly-ought not to be vended over
book-counters, but rather in drugstores along with the other
narcotics." Moving away from his usual setting of 13th century
France, Cabell begins his collection with an impassioned essay
decrying the state of American literature in the early twentieth
century. Interested in the nature of literary genius, he imagines
the lives of such poets as Robert Herrick and Alexander Pope, whose
wit and wisdom remain essential centuries after their deaths. A
Certain Hour is a captivating collection of tales from a historical
period not so different from our own. Cabell's work has long been
described as escapist, his novels and stories derided as fantastic
and obsessive recreations of a world lost long ago. To read A
Certain Hour, however, is to understand that the issues therein-the
struggle for power, the unspoken distance between men and
women-were vastly important not only at the time of its
publication, but in our own, divisive world. With a beautifully
designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition
of James Branch Cabell's A Certain Hour is a classic of fantasy and
romance reimagined for modern readers.
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