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Jurgen Drama Paperback Book James Branch Cabell from Penguin Books 1946
About the author
Richmond, Va., in 1879.
He was graduated from William James Branch Cabell was born in and Mary College in 1898, and while still a student there taught Greek and French.
Except for three years on the New York Herald he has lived and worked in Richmond.
Believing strongly in an artist's right to a private life, and with no political ax to grind or doctrine to preach, he has concentrated on his writing to the exclusion of everything else.
H. L. Mencken wrote: "His one aim in life is to keep on writing books-books ever subtler, finer in surface, pro- founder, more savory, more penetrating, better. In other words, his one aim in life is to make himself a first-rate artist-and this aim, I am inclined to think, he has come nearer to realizing than any other American of his time."
Cabell's books, which now make up a considerable list, have been highly praised and widely attacked.
Benjamin de Casseres called him "the Watteau of ironists, the Debussy of prose, the Spinoza of word-magic, the Prometheus of an American Renaissance."
Joseph Hergesheimer said of Jurgen "all the fabulous loveliness that has drugged men with rapture and death returns in the magic of Jurgen."
Henry Seidel Canby wrote: "Mr. Cabell has a fully matured style with body and beauty, and a perfect flow which suggests French prose as often as English."
Book is in acceptable condition. General shelf and corner wear. A few white marks on front and back cover. Some fraying along the cover edges. Some dog earing. Tearing and scraping on the front and back cover. Please see photos for details, and let me know if you have any questions.
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