Figures of Earth
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780554359267 (055435926X)
Publish date: August 18th 2008
Publisher: BiblioLife
Pages no: 280
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...