James Branch Cabell - Complete Works of James Branch Cabell

The Complete Works of

JAMES BRANCH CABELL

(1879-1958)

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The Complete Works of

JAMES BRANCH CABELL

By Delphi Classics, 2021

Complete Works of James Branch Cabell

First published in the United Kingdom in 2021 by Delphi Classics.

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Early twentieth-century Richmond, Virginia James Branch Cabells birthplace

Richmond today

Cabell in 1893, aged fourteen

FIRST EDITION TEXT, 1904

James Branch Cabell was the son of a Virginian doctor and a homemaker. The Cabell family was wealthy and well-connected; the first of Cabells ancestors had settled in Virginia in the early eighteenth century and James great-grandfather, William. H. Cabell had been the Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia from 1805 to 1808. Cabell was educated at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia between 1894 and 1898. He was very bright and while still a student he was employed by the college to teach Greek and French to the other undergraduates. It was during this time he became acquainted with a young woman called Gabriella Monroe, who would serve as an inspiration for many of his works.

First published in October 1904 by Doubleday in New York and Heinemann in London, The Eagles Shadow was Cabells debut novel, which was revised in 1923. The revisions were made for the work to be retrospectively included in his Biography of the Life of Manuel a series of novels, essays and verses that trace the life, adventures and aspirations of Dom Manuel, a medieval Count of Poictesme (a fictional province in France), and his many descendants. The series comprises 18 volumes and is known as the Storisende Edition . Despite Cabells assertion that the Biography was a single entity, many of the works included in it were written before he had even conceived of the idea. The Eagles Shadow is a comedic novel set in a mansion in the countryside; it centres on an heiress, Margaret Hugonin, who inherits a fortune after her uncle dies and has to navigate the world of unwanted suitors.

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