Figures of Earth A Comedy of Appearances
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780766198968 (0766198960)
Publish date: June 1st 2005
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Pages no: 372
Edition language: English
Series: The Biography of Manuel (#2)
Mundus vult decipi - the world wants to be deceived - and the happier man is one whose desires remain unfulfilled inform all of Cabell's writing. As the chroniclers write of Poictesme's redemption: "For although this was a very heroic war, with a parade of every sort of high moral principle, and wit...