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The High Place (Biography of the Life of Manuel)
Series: Biography of the Life of Manuel
Volume: 11
Genre: Fantasy
ISBN: 9781592240388
Publisher: Wildside Press
Reader Rating: Not rated
The High Place by James Branch Cabell

Description: In the sulphurous The High Place, the amoral hero Florian enters the sleeping-beauty story and (unlike Jurgen with Helen) does not draw back at the sight of excessive beauty. Complications ensue: Beauty is realistically diminished during pregnancy, the first-born child is forfeit to Satan under the pact that guaranteed Florain's success, and an irascible saint is eager to call down holy fire on transgressors. Florian treads close to damnation and is saved only when Satan and the angel Michael conspire to let recent events become, again, a dream: he has a rare second chance and learns better."

Also in this series are Beyond Life, Figures of Earth, The Silver Stallion, The Music From Behind the Moon, The White Robe, The Way of Ecben, The Soul of Melicent, Chivalry, Jurgen, The Line of Love, Gallantry, Something About Eve, The Certain Hour, The Cords of Vanity, From the Hidden Way, The Jewel Merchants, The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck, The Eagle's Shadow, The Cream of the Jest, The Lineage of Lichfield, Straws and Prayer-Books Return to the James Branch Cabell page.

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