The Cords of Vanity: A Comedy of Shirking

James Branch Cabell (1879-1956) is best known for his tales of the imaginary land of Poictesme, where chivalry and galantry live on. All of Cabell's works from before 1930 (including The Cords of Vanity, an otherwise mainstream novel) were assembled into the grand Biography of the Life of Manuel, the supposed redeemer of the land of Poictesme, and they form a series which follows Manuel and his descendants through the centuries.Cabell has been a favorite author of many famous writers, raniging from Lin Carter to Robert A. Heinlein.THE CORDS OF VANITYIntroduction by Wilson Follett Mr. Cabell gives an airy chronicle of the love affairs of his hero, Robert Townsend, who has adopted infancy as a profession, and never gets out of boyhood. Townsend is also one of the self-hypnotized persons who, in the moment of saying it, believes everything that he says, and thus romances alluringly of himself with no regard to the fetters of fact--"truly a captivating liar. In this higher carelessness all his contradictions and repetitions are merged into a fine unity. By playing

James Branch Cabell (1879-1956) is best known for his tales of the imaginary land of Poictesme, where chivalry and galantry live on

The Prologue	p. 1
He Sits Out a Dance	p. 15
He Loves Extensively	p. 23
He Earns a Stick-pin	p. 33
He Talks With Charteris	p. 43
He Revisits Fairhaven and the Play	p. 52
He Chats over a Hedge	p. 61
He Goes Mad in a Garden	p. 67
He Duels With a Stupid Woman	p. 77
He Puts His Tongue in His Cheek	p. 86
He Samples New Emotions	p. 100
He Postures Among Chimney-pots	p. 112
He Faces Himself and Remembers	p. 126
He Baits Upon the Journey	p. 135
He Participates in a Brave Jest	p. 145
He Decides to Amuse Himself	p. 152
He Seeks for Copy	p. 161
He Provides Copy	p. 170
He Spends an Afternoon in Arden	p. 185
He Plays the Improvident Fool	p. 198
He Dines Out, Impeded by Superstitions	p. 214
He is Urged to Desert His Galley	p. 226
He Cleans the Slate	p. 239
He Reviles Destiny and Climbs a Wall	p. 248
He Reconciles Sentiment and Reason	p. 257
He Advances in the Attack on Selwoode	p. 267
He Assists in the Diversion of Birds	p. 274
He Calls, Counsels, and Considers	p. 282
He Participates in Sundry Confidences	p. 299
He Allows the Merits of Imperfection	p. 311
He Gilds the Weather-vane	p. 321
The Epilogue: Which Suggests that Second Thoughts	p. 329
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