Work

The High Place

James Branch Cabell · 1923novel

Genre
Place
- secondary world
Time
- timeless or unspecified
Tone
- funny
- whimsical
Audience
- adult

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Themeidentity

The High Place is a 1923 fantasy novel by James Branch Cabell, first published in hardcover by Robert M. McBride in an edition illustrated by Frank C. Pape. It is the eighth volume in the Storisende edition of Cabell's Biography of the Life of Manuel. The High Place is a satirical sequel to the Sleeping Beauty tales, depicting a marriage where the "happily ever after" coda has gone far awry.

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Placement

Biography of the Life of Manuel — #9
contained in The Collected Works of James Branch Cabell. Illustrated: The Eagle's Shadow, Jurgen, The Cords of Vanity, The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck and othersomnibus