Domnei - A Comedy of Woman-Worship

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.

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: James Branch Cabell
• Publisher: Mint Editions
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.08.2021
• EAN: 9781513295718
• ISBN: 978-1-5132-9571-8
• No. of pages: 128
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 203 mm x 8 mm
• Weight: 147 g
• Series: Mint Editions; Mint Editions--Fantasy and Fai; Mint Editions (Fantasy and Fairytale)
• Subjects: Fiction > Science fiction, fantasy; Comic (humorous) fantasy