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Figures of Earth by James Branch Cabell
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Figures of Earth, a Comedy of Appearances (Cabell, James Branch; Carter,…

by James Branch Cabell (otherwise under James Branch Cabell)

Series: The Biography of Manuel (book 2), The Biography of Manuel in order of publication (13)

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Ballantine (1969), Edition: 1ST, Paperback

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  mcolpitts | Aug 1, 2009 |
This, the designated first book of The Biography of Manuel, James Branch Cabell's cycle of comedies, cricitism and poems that hit American literature like a ton of feathers in the 1920s, is not the best of the series. Nor is it the worst. What it is is necessary. A bit overlong, I thought. But a great ending, and great droll scenes throughout. Must readers for Cabell lovers, but though it is the first in a cycle, it is not the cream of the geste. ( )
  wirkman | Mar 31, 2007 |
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The other saying, Manuel replied, "I cannot utter. Yet I wish I were not forced to confess this. It sounds badly. At all events, I love Niafer better than I love any other person, but I do not value Niafer's life more highly than I value my own life, and it would be nonsense to say so. No; my life is very necessary to me, and there is a geas upon me to make a figure in this world before I leave it."

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