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    Taboo A Legend Retold from the Dirghic of Sævius Nicanor, with Prolegomena, Notes, and a Preliminary Memoir
    Taboo A Legend Retold from the Dirghic of Sævius Nicanor, with Prolegomena, Notes, and a Preliminary Memoir
    Taboo A Legend Retold from the Dirghic of Sævius Nicanor, with Prolegomena, Notes, and a Preliminary Memoir
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    Taboo A Legend Retold from the Dirghic of Sævius Nicanor, with Prolegomena, Notes, and a Preliminary Memoir

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    Release dateNov 27, 2013
    Taboo A Legend Retold from the Dirghic of Sævius Nicanor, with Prolegomena, Notes, and a Preliminary Memoir
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    James Branch Cabell

    James Branch Cabell; (April 14, 1879 – May 5, 1958) was an American author of fantasy fiction and belles-lettres. Cabell was well-regarded by his contemporaries, including H. L. Mencken, Edmund Wilson, and Sinclair Lewis. His works were considered escapist and fit well in the culture of the 1920s, when they were most popular. For Cabell, veracity was "the one unpardonable sin, not merely against art, but against human welfare." Although escapist, Cabell's works are ironic and satirical. Mencken disputed Cabell's claim to romanticism and characterized him as "really the most acidulous of all the anti-romantics. His gaudy heroes ... chase dragons precisely as stockbrokers play golf." Cabell saw art as an escape from life, but found that, once the artist creates his ideal world, it is made up of the same elements that make the real one

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      Title: Taboo

      A Legend Retold from the Dirghic of Sævius Nicanor, with

      Prolegomena, Notes, and a Preliminary Memoir

      Author: James Branch Cabell

      Release Date: November 22, 2005 [EBook #17134]

      Language: English

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      TABOO

      A Legend Retold from the Dirghic of Sævius

      Nicanor, with Prolegomena, Notes,

      and a Preliminary Memoir

      By

      James Branch Cabell

      At melius fuerat non scribere, namque tacere Tutum semper erit.

      NEW YORK

      ROBERT M. McBRIDE & COMPANY

      1921

      This edition is limited to nine hundred and twenty numbered copies, of which one hundred copies have been signed by the author.

      Copy Number __893__

      Copyright, 1921, by

      James Branch Cabell

      Revised and reprinted, by permission of the Editors, from The Literary Review

      CONTENTS.

      THE DEDICATION

      Laudataque virtus crescit

      "Buttons, a farthing a pair!

      Come, who could buy them of me?

      They're round and sound and pretty,

      And fit for girls of the city."

      TO JOHN S. SUMNER

      (Agent of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice)

      For no short while my indebtedness to you has been such as to require some sort of public acknowledgment, which may now, I think, be tendered most appropriately by inscribing upon the dedication page of this small volume the name to which you are daily adding in significance.

      It is a tribute, however trivial, which serves at least to express my appreciation of your zeal in re-establishing what seemed to the less optimistic a lost cause. I may to-day confess without much embarrassment that after fifteen years of foiled endeavors my (various) publishers and I had virtually decided that the printing

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