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The Line of Love (Paperback)
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The Line of Love (Paperback)
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Loot Price R220
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The Line of Love (1913) is a collection of comic fantasy tales by
James Branch Cabell. Set in a world where history and fantasy
collide, where a lowly swineherd can rise to be Count of Poictesme,
The Line of Love is one of Cabell's best-known works of fiction,
and is included in a series of novels, essays, and poems known as
the Biography of the Life of Manuel."It is a tale which they
narrate in Poictesme, telling how love began between Florian de
Puysange and Adelaide de la Foret. They tell also how young Florian
had earlier fancied other women for one reason or another; but that
this, he knew, was the great love of his life, and a love which
would endure unchanged as long as his life lasted." On the night of
his wedding to the lovely Adelaide de la Foret, Florian de Puysange
has a strange feeling that something is missing. Stepping outside
to gather his wits about him, he remembers his dear friend Tiburce,
dead for five years. At that moment, his comrade appears before
him, alive but with an alien tone to his voice. Recalling the pact
they made to drink in celebration of whomever married first,
Florian wanders into the garden to make good on his promise. Set in
a fictionalized France of the 13th century, The Line of Love is a
captivating collection of tales and legends from a mythical world
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 The
Line of Love, 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 The Line of Love is a classic of fantasy
and romance reimagined for modern readers.
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