Figures of Earth (Barnes & Noble Digital Library): A Comedy of Appearances
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781411444270 (1411444272)
Publish date: March 22nd 2011
Publisher: Barnes & Noble
Pages no: 380
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...