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)
Audiobook details
GenreGeneral Fiction, Literary Classics
Length31 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 8, 2021
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1THE DEDICATION
6I.How Horvendile Met Fate and Custom
2TO JOHN S. SUMNER
72.How the Garbage Man Came with Forks
3MEMOIR OF SÆVIUS NICANOR
83.How Thereupon Ensued a Legal Debate
4PROLEGOMENA
94.How There Was Babbling in Philistia
5THE LEGEND
105.How It Appeared to the Man in the Street
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