Figures of Earth
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781406890440 (1406890448)
Publish date: May 14th 2008
Publisher: Echo Library
Pages no: 172
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...