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The Certain Hour (Mint Editions (Fantasy and Fairytale))
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The Certain Hour (Mint Editions (Fantasy and Fairytale)) Paperback - 2021

by Cabell, James Branch

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  • Title The Certain Hour (Mint Editions (Fantasy and Fairytale))
  • Author Cabell, James Branch
  • Binding Paperback
  • Condition New
  • Pages 170
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Mint Editions
  • Date 2021-08-03
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 52GZZZ01NFXH_ns
  • ISBN 9781513295749 / 1513295748
  • Weight 0.42 lbs (0.19 kg)
  • Dimensions 8 x 5 x 0.4 in (20.32 x 12.70 x 1.02 cm)

From the publisher

A Certain Hour (1922) is a collection of stories by James Branch Cabell. Recreating the lives of some of history's most celebrated poets, A Certain Hour is a relative outlier among Cabell's body of work, and is included in a series of novels, essays, and poems known as the Biography of the Life of Manuel. "Indisputably the most striking defect of this modern American literature is the fact that the production of anything at all resembling literature is scarcely anywhere apparent. Innumerable printing-presses, instead, are turning out a vast quantity of reading-matter, the candidly recognized purpose of which is to kill time, and which--it has been asserted, though perhaps too sweepingly--ought not to be vended over book-counters, but rather in drugstores along with the other narcotics." Moving away from his usual setting of 13th century France, Cabell begins his collection with an impassioned essay decrying the state of American literature in the early twentieth century. Interested in the nature of literary genius, he imagines the lives of such poets as Robert Herrick and Alexander Pope, whose wit and wisdom remain essential centuries after their deaths. A Certain Hour is a captivating collection of tales from a historical period not so different from our own. Cabell's work has long been described as escapist, his novels and stories derided as fantastic and obsessive recreations of a world lost long ago. To read A Certain Hour, however, is to understand that the issues therein--the struggle for power, the unspoken distance between men and women--were vastly important not only at the time of its publication, but in our own, divisive world. This edition of James Branch Cabell's A Certain Hour is a classic of fantasy and romance reimagined for modern readers.

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From the rear cover

In a society seemingly dedicated to ignoring and devaluing the work of poets, is poetry merely a fruitless gesture, or a sign of one's dedication to higher ideals? In this collection, Cabell imagines the lives of some of history's greatest poets, including Alexander Pope and Robert Herrick. A Certain Hour is a collection of stories by James Branch Cabell.