Length31m
About this audiobook
Taboo (1921) is a comic fantasy novel by James Branch Cabell. Set in a world where history and fantasy collide, where a lowly pawnbroker can encounter monsters, gods, and devils. Cabell tells the story of Philistia, a country dedicated to the persecution of all manner of ill-defined vice and taboo. Bold and satirical, this thinly veiled critique of his own, high-minded critics is essential to understanding Cabell's vision of art. Cabell's work has long been described as escapist, his novels and stories derided as fantastic and obsessive recreations of a world lost long ago. To read Taboo, however, is to understand that the issues therein--the struggle for power, the unspoken distance between men and women--were vastly important not only at the time of its publication, but in our own, divisive world. (Google)
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Rating★★★ 3.1 (23)
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GenreGeneral Fiction, Literary Classics
Length31 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 8, 2021
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1THE DEDICATION
2TO JOHN S. SUMNER
3MEMOIR OF SÆVIUS NICANOR
4PROLEGOMENA
5THE LEGEND
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6I.How Horvendile Met Fate and Custom
72.How the Garbage Man Came with Forks
83.How Thereupon Ensued a Legal Debate
94.How There Was Babbling in Philistia
105.How It Appeared to the Man in the Street
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