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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 flora 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.
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This book is in excellent condition. There may be minimal writing on the
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This book is in excellent condition. There may be minimal writing on the inside cover or cover page. Cover image on the book may vary from photo. Ships out quickly in a secure plastic mailer.
This book is in excellent condition. There may be minimal writing on the
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This book is in excellent condition. There may be minimal writing on the inside cover or cover page. Cover image on the book may vary from photo. Ships out quickly in a secure plastic mailer.
[HISTORY]. James Branch Cabell. "Let Me Lie: Being in the Main an
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[HISTORY]. James Branch Cabell. "Let Me Lie: Being in the Main an Ethnological Account of the Remarkable Commonwealth of Virginia and the Making of Its History (The Virginia Bookshelf)." Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 2001. English language. Softcover with pictorial wrappers. 8 x 5 inches. 286 pp. Text clean. Fine. ISBN: 0813920434. "When this work was first published in 1947, most reviewers missed the double meaning of the book's title. It is indeed a history of Virginia from 1559 to 1946-focusing on Tidewater, Richmond and the Northern Neck-but it shows that Virginia's story of itself depends on illusion and myth."
[HISTORY]. James Branch Cabell. "Let Me Lie: Being in the Main an
[...]
[HISTORY]. James Branch Cabell. "Let Me Lie: Being in the Main an Ethnological Account of the Remarkable Commonwealth of Virginia and the Making of Its History (The Virginia Bookshelf)." Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 2001. English language. Softcover with pictorial wrappers. 8 x 5 inches. 286 pp. Text clean. Fine. ISBN: 0813920434. "When this work was first published in 1947, most reviewers missed the double meaning of the book's title. It is indeed a history of Virginia from 1559 to 1946-focusing on Tidewater, Richmond and the Northern Neck-but it shows that Virginia's story of itself depends on illusion and myth."
