Taboo / A Legend Retold from the Dirghic of Sævius Nicanor, with / Prolegomena, Notes, and a Preliminary Memoir
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This short book, published in 1921, is Cabell's response to the publicity that attended the publication of his novel "Jurgen," the subject of a notorious obscenity trial. Here, in his inimitable ironic style, he thanks those who sought to persecute him and, in doing so, launched his career to undreamed-of heights.I know, be employed to interpret the dicta Of Ackermann and Macrobius, or even the canons Of Doctors Matthews and Sherman herein cited, and thus open dire vistas wherein critic would prey on critic, and the most respectable would be locked in fratricidal strife. Moreover, I have appli...
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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
- CONTENTS.
- THE DEDICATION
- TO JOHN S. SUMNER
- MEMOIR OF SÆVIUS NICANOR
- PROLEGOMENA
- THE LEGEND
- I—How Horvendile Met Fate and Custom
- 2—How the Garbage Man Came with Forks
- 3—How Thereupon Ensued a Legal Debate
- 4—How There Was Babbling in Philistia
- 5—How It Appeared to the Man in the Street
- COLOPHON
- A POSTSCRIPT
- EXPLICIT
- BOOKS by MR. CABELL
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