Approaching Cabell

Where should you begin with an author like Cabell? Should you pick a book and start reading? Should you first get a sense of the person and the times in which he lived? Here are some suggestions….

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“It may be true that lies have short legs, but civilization advances upon them….The past, the present and the future are thus everywhere presented in the terms of generally pleasure-giving prose fictions: and life is rendered passable by our believing in those which are most to our especial liking.”
— “A Note on Alcoves” in The Novel of Tomorrow and the Scope of Fiction

  • Life and Times

    Banning Jurgen

    The battle over literature, morality and who's to judge

  • Scholarship

    Cabell's Bibliographers

    Publication history and the study of books as physical objects

  • Cabell at VCU

    The Cabell Associates

    Promoting the critical study of writer James Branch Cabell and the interests of VCU Libraries