Taboo: A Legend Retold from the Dirghic of Sævius Nicanor, with / Prolegomena, Notes, and a Preliminary Memoir

By James Branch Cabell

"Taboo" is a legend retold from the Dirghic of Sævius Nicanor, with Prolegomena, Notes, and a preliminary Memoir of Nicanor's life. Saevius Nicanor is mentioned by the Roman historian Suetonius as the first grammarian who acquired fame and honour as a teacher among the Romans. He probably lived in the 3rd or 2nd century BC. He was the author of commentaries, the greater portion of which was said to have been suppressed, and of a satire where he declares himself to have been a freedman. Suetonius adds that according to some accounts, because of a bad reputation he retired to Sardinia and there died.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Good Press
• Release date: Nov 25, 2019
• ISBN: 4057664642868

James Branch Cabell

James Branch Cabell (1879-1958) was an American writer of escapist and fantasy fiction. Born into a wealthy family in the state of Virginia, Cabell attended the College of William and Mary, where he graduated in 1898 following a brief personal scandal. His first stories began to be published, launching a productive decade in which Cabell’s worked appeared in both Harper’s Monthly Magazine and The Saturday Evening Post. Over the next forty years, Cabell would go on to publish fifty-two books, many of them novels and short-story collections. A friend, colleague, and inspiration for such writers as Ellen Glasgow, H.L. Mencken, Sinclair Lewis, and Theodore Dreiser, James Branch Cabell is remembered as an iconoclastic pioneer of fantasy literature.

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James Branch Cabell

Taboo

A Legend Retold from the Dirghic of Sævius Nicanor, with / Prolegomena, Notes, and a Preliminary Memoir

Published by Good Press, 2019

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EAN 4057664642868

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TO JOHN S. SUMNER

MEMOIR OF SÆVIUS NICANOR

PROLEGOMENA

THE LEGEND

I—How Horvendile Met Fate and Custom

2—How the Garbage Man Came with Forks

3—How Thereupon Ensued a Legal Debate

4—How There Was Babbling in Philistia

5—How It Appeared to the Man in the Street

COLOPHON

A POSTSCRIPT

EXPLICIT

BOOKS by MR. CABELL

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THE DEDICATION

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Laudataque virtus crescit

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"Buttons, a farthing a pair!

Come, who could buy them of me?

They're round and sound and pretty,

And fit for girls of the city."

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TO JOHN S. SUMNER

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(Agent of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice)

For no short while my indebtedness to you has been such as to require some sort of public acknowledgment, which may now, I think, be tendered most appropriately by inscribing upon the dedication page of this small volume the name to which you are daily adding in significance.

It is a tribute, however trivial, which serves at least to express my appreciation of your zeal in re-establishing what seemed to the less optimistic a lost cause. I