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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