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Having risen from swineherd to Count of Poictesme, Dom Manuel leaves behind a legacy of power and courage for his children to live up to. As two nobleman struggle to win his daughter Melicent's hand, a comedy of errors unfolds, illuminating the pitfalls of medieval chivalry. Domnei: A Comedy of Woman-Worship is a comic fantasy novel by James Branch Cabell.

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Having risen from swineherd to Count of Poictesme, Dom Manuel leaves behind a legacy of power and courage for his children to live up to. As two nobleman struggle to win his daughter Melicent's hand, a comedy of errors unfolds, illuminating the pitfalls of medieval chivalry. Domnei: A Comedy of Woman-Worship is a comic fantasy novel by James Branch Cabell.
Autorenporträt
James Branch Cabell (1879-1958) was an American writer of escapist and fantasy fiction. Born into a wealthy family in the state of Virginia, Cabell attended the College of William and Mary, where he graduated in 1898 following a brief personal scandal. His first stories began to be published, launching a productive decade in which Cabell's worked appeared in both Harper's Monthly Magazine and The Saturday Evening Post. Over the next forty years, Cabell would go on to publish fifty-two books, many of them novels and short-story collections. A friend, colleague, and inspiration for such writers as Ellen Glasgow, H.L. Mencken, Sinclair Lewis, and Theodore Dreiser, James Branch Cabell is remembered as an iconoclastic pioneer of fantasy literature.