James Branch Cabell (1879–1958)
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James Branch Cabell (1879-1956) is best known for his tales of the imaginary land of Poictesme, where chivalry and galantry live on
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Verk av James Branch Cabell
Taboo: A Legend Retold from the Dirghic of Sævius Nicanor, with Prolegomena, Notes, and a Preliminary Memoir (1921) 26 exemplar
Ballades from the hidden way 7 exemplar
The Judging of Jurgen 6 exemplar
These Restless Heads by James Branch Cabell boxed with James Branch Cabell by Carl Van Doren (2 volumes) (1932) 6 exemplar
The Thin Queen of Elfhame {short story} 4 exemplar
Heart Of Gold [story] 2 exemplar
Actors All 2 exemplar
James Branch Cabell Combo #1: Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice/Figures of Earth/The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck (James… (2013) 2 exemplar
In The Second April 2 exemplar
The Rhyme To Porringer 2 exemplar
The Scapegoats [story] 2 exemplar
L'incubo 2 exemplar
Some Ladies And Jurgen 2 exemplar
Porcelain Cups 2 exemplar
The Happy Ending [story] 1 exemplar
Letter: from James Branch Cabell to "Andrew" 1 exemplar
Letter: from James Branch Cabell to "Mrs. Houghton" (that is, Carolyn Wells), 20 April 1920 1 exemplar
The Silver Stallion a comedy of Redemption The Works of James Branch Cabell volume III (3) (1927) 1 exemplar
The Bookman, November-December 1919 — Bidragsgivare; Redaktör — 1 exemplar
"Music & Pigeons" 1 exemplar
Of Ellen Glasgow 1 exemplar
The Novel of Tomorrow and the Scope of Fiction: Part II of The New Republic for April 12th, 1922 1 exemplar
The Reviewer, Volume II, Numbers 1-6 (October 1921-March 1922) — Bidragsgivare; Guest Editor — 1 exemplar
The King Was in His Counting House 1 exemplar
James Branch Cabell 1 exemplar
Don Manuel di Poictesme 1 exemplar
Figures of Faith 1 exemplar
Domnei 1 exemplar
The Silver Stallion 1 exemplar
Something About Eve 1 exemplar
[Manuel Saga 2: The Silver Stallion; Domnei; The Music From Behind the Moon; The White Robe, in Russian] (1994) 1 exemplar
Copy of a Letter : from James Branch Cabell to "Grandpa" (Branch or Cabell?), 20[?] July 1888 1 exemplar
The Complete Works of James Branch Cabell (11 Complete Works of James Branch Cabell Including Chivalry, Domnei, Figures… (2015) 1 exemplar
Love's Alumni: The Afterpiece 1 exemplar
Affairs in Poictesme 1 exemplar
Letter : from James Branch Cabell to Paul M. A. Linebarger (Cordwainer Smith), 20 January 1932 1 exemplar
Love At Martinmas 1 exemplar
The Reviewer : Vol II, No. 3 (Dec. 1921) — Guest editor — 1 exemplar
Simon's Hour 1 exemplar
The Casual Honeymoon 1 exemplar
April's Message 1 exemplar
The Ducal Audience 1 exemplar
The Cream of the Jest 1 exemplar
Associerade verk
F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby, All the Sad Young Men & Other Writings 1920–26 (LOA #353) (Library of… (2022) — Bidragsgivare — 94 exemplar
The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story (1919) — Bidragsgivare — 14 exemplar
Fifty Years of the American Short Story from the O. Henry Awards 1919-1970 (1970) — Bidragsgivare — 13 exemplar
Jurgen and the Censor: Report of the Emergency Committee Organized to Protest Against the Suppression of James Branch… (1920) — Bidragsgivare — 10 exemplar
A Bibliography of the Writings of James Branch Cabell; A Revised Bibliography (1932) — Förord — 9 exemplar
Breaking into print; being a compilation of papers wherein each of a select group of authors tells of the difficulties… (1937) — Bidragsgivare — 9 exemplar
The Smart set; a history and anthology — Bidragsgivare — 9 exemplar
A bibliographic check-list of the works of James Branch Cabell, 1904-1921 (1921) — Förord — 8 exemplar
Immortal Lyrics: An Anthology of English Lyric Poetry from Sir Walter Raleigh to A.E. Housman (1938) — contributor to introduction — 8 exemplar
James Branch Cabell: A Bibliography, Part II. Notes on the Cabell Collections at the University of Virginia (1957) — Bidragsgivare — 7 exemplar
Southern Poets - Representative Selections, with Introduction, Bibliography, and Notes (1936) — Bidragsgivare — 5 exemplar
1935 Essay Annual — Bidragsgivare — 4 exemplar
James Branch Cabell: A Bibliography of his Writings, Biography and Criticism (1957) — Förord — 4 exemplar
Morrow's Almanack and Every Day Book For 1930 — Bidragsgivare — 4 exemplar
The American Spectator : A Literary Newspaper, Vol. 1 No. 1 (November, 1932) — Redaktör — 3 exemplar
Faunus: The Journal of the Friends of Arthur Machen (Spring 2014, Number Twenty-Nine) — Bidragsgivare — 3 exemplar
Fifty Years of the American Short Story: from the O. Henry Awards 1919-1970 (Volume I) (1970) — Bidragsgivare — 2 exemplar
The Atlantic, October 1946 — Bidragsgivare — 2 exemplar
Little Verses and Big Names — Bidragsgivare — 2 exemplar
Saturday Evening Post, August 6, 1904 — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
McBride's Magazine, September 1915 — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
Saturday Evening Post, October 1, 1904 — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
Second-hand Man — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
Prize stories from Collier's, 5 volumes — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
The American Spectator : A Literary Newspaper, Vol. 1 No. 2 (December, 1932) — Redaktör — 1 exemplar
The Nation (September 12, 1953) — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
Saturday Evening Post, August 27, 1904 — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
The Reviewer, Volume I, Numbers 1-12 (April-August 1921) — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
The Reviewer, Volume IV, Numbers 1-5 (October 1923-October 1924) — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
The Reviewer : Vol I, No. 8 (June 1, 1921) — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
The American Spectator : A Literary Newspaper, Vol. 1 No. 3 — Redaktör — 1 exemplar
Fellowship : December 1921 — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
The art of narration — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
Saturday Evening Post, September 10, 1904 — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
Saturday Evening Post, September 3, 1904 — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
Saturday Evening Post, August 20, 1904 — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
The Golden Book Magazine, Vol IX No 43 (June 1929) — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
Reading and collecting; a monthly review of rare and recent books: Volume 1, Number 11 (October 1937) — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
American Short Stories: Anthology [Mi-Sefarim Amerikai'im: Antologiyah shel Ha-Sipur Ha-Ketsar Ha-Amerkai] — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
American Mercury, August 1930 — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
American Mercury, July 1931 — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
The Dial, February 22, 1919 — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
American Mercury, December 1951 — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
The Nation — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
The Jewel Merchants, in Lino-cuts — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
The Golden Book Magazine, Vol II No 10 (October 1925) — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
The Red Book, November 1925 — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
Saturday Evening Post, August 13, 1904 — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
Virginia Quarterly Review, Vol 6 No 3 (July 1930) — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
The Georgia Review, Vol VII No 3 (Fall 1953) — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
The American Spectator : A Literary Newspaper, Vol. 1 No. 7 — Redaktör — 1 exemplar
The American Spectator : A Literary Newspaper, Vol. 1 No. 6 — Redaktör — 1 exemplar
The American Spectator : A Literary Newspaper, Vol. 1 No. 5 — Redaktör — 1 exemplar
The Argosy, Volume XXXVIII (December 1901 to March 1902) — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
The American Spectator : A Literary Newspaper, Vol. 1 No. 4 — Redaktör — 1 exemplar
Saturday Review of Literature, Vol XXV, No. 31 (August 1, 1942) — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
Direction, Vol 1 No 1 (Autumn 1934) — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
Taggad
Allmänna fakta
- Andra namn
- Cabell, Branch
Washington, Burwell (pseudonym)
Jefferson, Henry Lee (pseudonym)
Anderson, Claiborne Hauks (pseudonym) - Födelsedag
- 1879-04-14
- Avled
- 1958-05-05
- Begravningsplats
- Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia, USA
- Kön
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Födelseort
- Richmond, Virginia, USA
- Dödsort
- Richmond, Virginia, USA
- Bostadsorter
- Richmond, Virginia, USA
New York, New York, USA
St. Augustine, Florida, USA
Williamsburg, Virginia, USA - Utbildning
- College of William and Mary (BA|1898)
- Yrken
- novelist
short-story writer
essayist
poet
reporter
editor (visa alla 7)
geneaologist - Relationer
- Glasgow, Ellen (friend)
Cabell, Margaret Freeman (wife)
Munford, Beverley Bland (uncle)
Tompkins, Ellen Wilkins (cousin)
Harrison, Henry Sydnor (cousin)
Rives, Amelie (cousin) (visa alla 12)
Cabell, James Alston (cousin)
Cabell, Isa Carrington (cousin)
Harrison, Norvell (cousin)
Christian, W. E. (cousin)
Bouve, Pauline Carrington (cousin)
Bowie, Walter Russell (cousin) - Priser och utmärkelser
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature ∙ 1937)
- Kort biografi
- Cabell, Branch - (James Branch Cabell)kăˈbəl, 1879–1958, American novelist, b. Richmond, Va., grad. William and Mary, 1898. "As a mnemonic for the pronunciation of his name, he wrote: 'Tell the rabble / My name is Cabell.' (2004, F Brett Cox, editor)" After various experiences as a journalist and as a clerk for a coal mining company he began writing fiction. His early works, which are sophisticated novels deriding conventional history, include Gallantry (1907), Chivalry (1909), and The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck (1915). Many of Cabell's most popular novels are set in the imaginary medieval kingdom of Poictesme; among these are The Cream of the Jest (1917), Jurgen (1919)—Cabell's most famous work because of its attempted suppression on charges of obscenity—and The Silver Stallion (1926). Cabell's novels are usually pointedly antirealistic, and many of them can be considered moral allegories. Although he was enormously popular in the 1920s, his highly artifical prose style and subject matter lost favor with critics and public alike by the 1930s. His nonfiction writing includes Beyond Life (1919), The St. Johns (with A. J. Hanna, 1943), and Let Me Lie (1947).
Medlemmar
Diskussioner
Notes and Translations on Chivalry? i The Rabble Discuss Cabell: James Branch Cabell &c (september 2022)
New digital project explores the life and legacy of James Branch Cabell, namesake of VCU’s library i The Rabble Discuss Cabell: James Branch Cabell &c (januari 2022)
Cabell's original titles i The Rabble Discuss Cabell: James Branch Cabell &c (september 2021)
Cabell reference in science fiction story i The Rabble Discuss Cabell: James Branch Cabell &c (september 2021)
Gaiman's steal on Cabell i The Rabble Discuss Cabell: James Branch Cabell &c (juli 2021)
German ballad (1907) about a knight called Manuel i The Rabble Discuss Cabell: James Branch Cabell &c (januari 2021)
"The Vampire," a First Story by Cabell i The Rabble Discuss Cabell: James Branch Cabell &c (december 2020)
Cabell's Heirs? i The Rabble Discuss Cabell: James Branch Cabell &c (november 2020)
Faulkner and james Branch Cabell i William Faulkner and his Literary Kin (oktober 2020)
Happy 100th birthday Jurgen! i The Rabble Discuss Cabell: James Branch Cabell &c (september 2019)
Beyond Life i The Rabble Discuss Cabell: James Branch Cabell &c (januari 2019)
Special Delivery (screening the mail) i The Rabble Discuss Cabell: James Branch Cabell &c (november 2017)
Ecben and the Witch-Women (and a pendant) i The Rabble Discuss Cabell: James Branch Cabell &c (oktober 2013)
Illustrated Cabell Bibliography i The Rabble Discuss Cabell: James Branch Cabell &c (januari 2013)
Dedicated to JBC i The Rabble Discuss Cabell: James Branch Cabell &c (december 2012)
Cabell articles on offer i The Rabble Discuss Cabell: James Branch Cabell &c (maj 2011)
A new book called Jurgen i The Rabble Discuss Cabell: James Branch Cabell &c (mars 2011)
Musings on The Silver Stallion i The Rabble Discuss Cabell: James Branch Cabell &c (juli 2010)
Recensioner
This book collects the prefaces to all of the books in Cabell's Storisende edition of his work. As such, I didn't think at first that it would be worth getting. But the Storisende edition itself has its prefaces printed in difficult-to-read italics -- and it's also difficult to find every last volume -- so I decided to try it. It provides a more or less coherent summary of what Cabell thought he was doing with each of his books. Or, at least, what Cabell says he was trying to do; he is nothing if not an unreliable narrator. Perhaps it's better to say that it works as a coherent plan of the Storisende edition and why he laid it out as he did. He also succumbed to the urge to re-revise, apparently, in that he added some material that had been printed elsewhere. If someone is going to read all of Cabell, it's a useful book.… (mer)
A one act play Cabell adapted from one of his short stories (Balthazar's Daughter), done for some local theatre. Apparently it was heavily rewritten with input from the actors and producer. I'm not sure which book the original story is collected in but i have read it and this is pretty similar to my recollection.
However there was an odd emphasis on the heroine being horrified by the fact the Duke was slightly dark skinned.. maybe i'm giving Cabell too much credit but i don't think that is in his solo version.
Still i wouldn't really recommend this even for the Cabell enthusiasts since its repeated elsewhere and in a purer Cabellian fashion.… (mer)
However there was an odd emphasis on the heroine being horrified by the fact the Duke was slightly dark skinned.. maybe i'm giving Cabell too much credit but i don't think that is in his solo version.
Still i wouldn't really recommend this even for the Cabell enthusiasts since its repeated elsewhere and in a purer Cabellian fashion.… (mer)
"...where she would tantalize me nightly, from her balcony, after the example of the Veronese lady in Shakespeare's spirited tragedy, which she prodigiously admired.
As concerns myself, a reasonable liking for romance had been of late somewhat tempered by the inclemency of the weather and the obvious unfriendliness of the dog; but there is no resisting a lady's commands..."
Yet another in the long line of Cabell’s historical romance short story collections. Its all filigree and artificiality but completely self-aware both from the authorial point of view and that of its characters who are generally quite practical at heart regardless of their pretensions for high romance.
Each story is presented like a scene from a play to add to the idea of life as stage sort of thing. Unlike most of Cabell’s story collections which are spread throughout time this one is much more connected with each tale leading on from the one before.
So a side-character in one will be the main character in the next, or the villain in one might be the hero in the following.
Personally i prefer the more historically spread collections but this format does allow you to see a different perspective on some of the previous stories and characters.
I think its probably the nicest of Cabell’s works. Usually the ratio of sweet to bitter in Cabell’s books is about 50/50 or worse but this is more like 80/20.
Its very nicely written but its happily-ever-afterness did start to grate on me a bit, of course my favourite Cabell so far is Figures of Earth, probably his bitterest work :P .
After i finished the final proper chapter it was still going to be 4-stars but probably the Cabell work i would have least liked to reread.
However the afterpiece really brings everything together and actually makes me want to reread the whole thing again keeping in mind the effect of the whole rather than seeing it as a series of tales.
"...and my children will be reared on moral aphorisms and rational food, with me as a handy example of everything they should avoid. Deuce take it, Amalia," he added, "a father must in common decency furnish an example to his children!"… (mer)
As concerns myself, a reasonable liking for romance had been of late somewhat tempered by the inclemency of the weather and the obvious unfriendliness of the dog; but there is no resisting a lady's commands..."
Yet another in the long line of Cabell’s historical romance short story collections. Its all filigree and artificiality but completely self-aware both from the authorial point of view and that of its characters who are generally quite practical at heart regardless of their pretensions for high romance.
Each story is presented like a scene from a play to add to the idea of life as stage sort of thing. Unlike most of Cabell’s story collections which are spread throughout time this one is much more connected with each tale leading on from the one before.
So a side-character in one will be the main character in the next, or the villain in one might be the hero in the following.
Personally i prefer the more historically spread collections but this format does allow you to see a different perspective on some of the previous stories and characters.
I think its probably the nicest of Cabell’s works. Usually the ratio of sweet to bitter in Cabell’s books is about 50/50 or worse but this is more like 80/20.
Its very nicely written but its happily-ever-afterness did start to grate on me a bit, of course my favourite Cabell so far is Figures of Earth, probably his bitterest work :P .
After i finished the final proper chapter it was still going to be 4-stars but probably the Cabell work i would have least liked to reread.
However the afterpiece really brings everything together and actually makes me want to reread the whole thing again keeping in mind the effect of the whole rather than seeing it as a series of tales.
"...and my children will be reared on moral aphorisms and rational food, with me as a handy example of everything they should avoid. Deuce take it, Amalia," he added, "a father must in common decency furnish an example to his children!"… (mer)
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"Would I deplore your death?" Orléans' head was now cocked until it lay almost on his left shoulder. "It is a fact of which I am not wholly persuaded."