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The Certain Hour (The Biography of Manuel, Book 12) by James Branch Cabell

By James Branch Cabell

Ahead of emerging within the ranks of the delusion style, American writer James department Cabell used fiction to be able to grapple along with his local country's previous, current, and destiny, in addition to with the conundrum of dwelling as an artist in a capitalist society. The exquisitely wrought brief tales accrued within the convinced Hour deal with those issues from a few diverse angles.

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