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….

“[L]ife is a fine ardent spectacle; and I have loved the actors in it: and I have loved their youth and high-heartedness, and their ungrounded faiths, and their queer dreams…about their own importance and about the greatness of the destiny that awaited them, — while you were piddling after, of all things, the truth!
The Silver Stallion