The Certain HourAuthor :
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Published : Thursday 16 September 2021
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A Certain Hour (1922) is a collection of stories by James Branch Cabell. Recreating the lives of some of historyâ?Ts most celebrated poets, A Certain Hour is a relative outlier among Cabellâ?Ts body of work, and is included in a series of novels, essays, and poems known as the Biography of the Life of Manuel. â?oIndisputably 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 whichâ?"it has been asserted, though perhaps too sweepinglyâ?"ought not to be vended over book-counters, but rather in drugstores along with the other narcotics.â?? 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. Cabellâ?Ts 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 thereinâ?"the struggle for power, the unspoken distance between men and womenâ?"were vastly important not only at the time of its publication, but in our own, divisive world. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of James Branch Cabellâ?Ts A Certain Hour is a classic of fantasy and romance reimagined for modern readers.
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