Taboo A Legend Retold from the Dirghic of Sævius Nicanor, with Prolegomena, Notes, and a Preliminary Memoir
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James Branch Cabell
James Branch Cabell (1879-1958) was an American writer of escapist and fantasy fiction. Born into a wealthy family in the state of Virginia, Cabell attended the College of William and Mary, where he graduated in 1898 following a brief personal scandal. His first stories began to be published, launching a productive decade in which Cabell’s worked appeared in both Harper’s Monthly Magazine and The Saturday Evening Post. Over the next forty years, Cabell would go on to publish fifty-two books, many of them novels and short-story collections. A friend, colleague, and inspiration for such writers as Ellen Glasgow, H.L. Mencken, Sinclair Lewis, and Theodore Dreiser, James Branch Cabell is remembered as an iconoclastic pioneer of fantasy literature.
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Title: Taboo
A Legend Retold from the Dirghic of Sævius Nicanor, with
Prolegomena, Notes, and a Preliminary Memoir
Author: James Branch Cabell
Release Date: November 22, 2005 [EBook #17134]
Language: English
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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
At melius fuerat non scribere, namque tacere Tutum semper erit.
NEW YORK
ROBERT M. McBRIDE & COMPANY
1921
This edition is limited to nine hundred and twenty numbered copies, of which one hundred copies have been signed by the author.
Copy Number __893__
Copyright, 1921, by
James Branch Cabell
Revised and reprinted, by permission of the Editors, from The Literary Review
CONTENTS.
THE DEDICATION
Laudataque virtus crescit
"Buttons, a farthing a pair!
Come, who could buy them of me?
They're round and sound and pretty,
And fit for girls of the city."
TO JOHN S. SUMNER
(Agent of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice)
For no short while my indebtedness to you has been such as to require some sort of public acknowledgment, which may now, I think, be tendered most appropriately by inscribing upon the dedication page of this small volume the name to which you are daily adding in significance.
It is a tribute, however trivial, which serves at least to express my appreciation of your zeal in re-establishing what seemed to the less optimistic a lost cause. I may to-day confess without much embarrassment that after fifteen years of foiled endeavors my (various) publishers and I had virtually decided that the printing