Let Me Lie

Being in the Main an Ethnological Account of the Remarkable Commonwealth of Virginia and the Making of Its History

By:

James Branch Cabell

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Paperback / softback

Series:

The Virginia Bookshelf

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When Let Me Lie was first published in 1947, most reviewers missed the double meaning of the book's title. Deaf to James Branch Cabell's many-layered ironic wit, they read the book as a paean to the old South. Readers of this new paperback edition are unlikely to repeat the mistake. Let Me Lie is indeed a carefully researched and brilliantly written historical narrative of Virginia from 1559 to 1946 - focusing on Tidewater, Richmond, and the Northern Neck - but as a fictional scholar remarks in the book, Cabell's history is ""both accurate and injudicious."" Virginia's story of itself, Cabell claims, depends on illusion and myth, and his skill as a satirist allows him to construct and deflate these myths simultaneously. Ranging in topic from Don Luis de Velasco and Captain John Smith to Edgar Allan Poe and Ellen Glasgow, from Confederate heroes to the oddities of the post-Civil War Old Dominion, Let Me Lie remains compulsively readable, as history, entertainment, or both.

Author Biography:

JAMES BRANCH CABELL (1879-1958) was the author of numerous works of fiction, history, criticism, and genealogy. R. H. W. DILLARD, Director of the Creative Writing Program at Hollins University, is the author most recently of Just Here, Just Now: Poems and Omniphobia: Stories.

Release date Australia

April 30th, 2001

Author

James Branch Cabell

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

Contributor

Foreword by R.H.W. Dillard

Pages

312

Series

The Virginia Bookshelf

Dimensions

133x203x22

ISBN-13

9780813920436

Product ID

3724978

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