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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“Time teaches us, indeed, that almost all human living is an exercise of acceptance rather than of action; and a career…far less of doing things than of having things done to you.”
—  Let me Lie

  • 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