Let Me Lie
Being in the Main an Ethnological Account of the Remarkable Commonwealth of Virginia and the Making of Its History
When Let Me Lie was firstpublished in 1947, most reviewers missed the double meaning of the book's title.Deaf to James Branch Cabell's many-layered ironic wit, they read the book as a paeanto the old South.Readers of this new paperbackedition are unlikely to repeat the mistake. Let MeLie is indeed a carefully researched and brilliantly writtenhistorical narrative of Virginia from 1559 to 1946--focusing on Tidewater, Richmond, and the Northern Neck--but as a fictional scholar remarks in the book, Cabell'shistory is both accurate and injudicious. Virginia's story of itself, Cabellclaims, depends on illusion and myth, and his skill as a satirist…
Mehr
CHF 55.90
Preise inkl. MwSt. und Versandkosten (Portofrei ab CHF 40.00)
V103:
Folgt in ca. 5 Arbeitstagen
Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-8139-2043-6
- EAN: 9780813920436
- Produktnummer: 9300120
- Verlag: University Press of Virginia
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
- Seitenangabe: 316 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D1.8 cm 424 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 424
Über den Autor
JAMES BRANCH CABELL (1879-1958) was the author of numerous works of fiction, history, criticism, and genealogy. R. H. W. DILLARD, Director of the Creative Writing Program at Hollins University, is the author most recently of Just Here, Just Now: Poems and Omniphobia: Stories.
100 weitere Werke von James Branch Cabell:
Bewertungen
Anmelden