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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“[D]oes not time breed emperors and czars and presidents as plentiful as blackberries, and as little thought of when their season is out? For there is no perpetuity in human endeavor: we strut upon a quicksand: and all that any man may do for good or ill is presently forgotten, because it does not matter.”
—  Beyond Life

  • 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