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 Cabella€™s works from before 1930 (including The Cords of Vanity, an otherwise a€?mainstreama€? novel) were assembled into the grand a€?Biography of the Life of Manuel,a€? 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 VANITY Introduction by Wilson Follett a€?Mr. Cabell gives an airy chronicle of the love affairs of his hero, Robert Townsend, who has adopted a€?infancya€? 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 facta€”truly a captivating liar....

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