Figures of Earth

About this eBook

Author

Cabell, James Branch, 1879-1958

Title

Figures of Earth: A Comedy of Appearances

Credits

E-text prepared by Suzanne Shell, Project Gutenberg Beginners Projects, Sandra Brown,

Language

English

LoC Class

PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature

Subject

Wit and humor

Category

Text

eBook-No.

11639

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11639

Release Date

March 1, 2004

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Figures of Earth
2. 2.James Branch Cabell — A Comedy of Appearances — 1921 — Illustrated by Frank C. Papé — List of Illustrations
3. 3.Contents — PART ONE THE BOOK OF CREDIT — PART TWO THE BOOK OF SPENDING — PART THREE THE BOOK OF CAST ACCOUNTS — PART FOUR THE BOOK OF SURCHARGE — PART FIVE THE BOOK OF SETTLEMENT — To — SIX MOST GALLANT CHAMPIONS — Author's Note — A FOREWORD — To SINCLAIR LEWIS — A Foreword — II — III — PART ONE
4. 4.THE BOOK OF CREDIT — TO WILSON FOLLETT — I — How Manuel Left the Mire — II — Niafer — III — Ascent of Vraidex — IV — In the Doubtful Palace — V — The Eternal Ambuscade — VI — Economics of Math — VII — The Crown of Wisdom — VIII — The Halo of Holiness — IX — The Feather of Love — PART TWO
5. 5.THE BOOK OF SPENDING — TO LOUIS UNTERMEYER — X — Alianora — XI — Magic of the Apsarasas — XII — Ice and Iron — XIII — What Helmas Directed — XIV — They Duel on Morven — XV — Bandages for the Victor — PART THREE
6. 6.THE BOOK OF CAST ACCOUNTS — TO H.L. MENCKEN — XVI — Freydis — XVII — Magic of the Image-Makers — XVIII — Manuel Chooses — XIX — The Head of Misery — XX — The Month of Years — XXI — Touching Repayment — XXII — Return of Niafer — XXIII — Manuel Gets His Desire — XXIV — Three Women — PART FOUR
7. 7.THE BOOK OF SURCHARGE — TO HUGH WALPOLE — XXV — Affairs in Poictesme — XXVI — Deals with the Stork — * * * * * — XXVII — They Come to Sargyll — XXVIII — How Melicent Was Welcomed — XXIX — Sesphra of the Dreams — XXX — Farewell to Freydis — XXXI — Statecraft — XXXII — The Redemption of Poictesme — PART FIVE
8. 8.THE BOOK OF SETTLEMENT — TO JOSEPH HERGESHEIMER — XXXIII — Now Manuel Prospers — XXXIV — Farewell to Alianora — XXXV — The Troubling Window — XXXVI — Excursions from Content — XXXVII — Opinions of Hinzelmann — XXXVIII — Farewell to Suskind — XXXIX — The Passing of Manuel — XL — Colophon: Da Capo — EXPLICIT

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