Full name: The High Place: A Comedy of Disenchantment

Author: James Branch Cabell Year: 1923 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fantasy, Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781592240753 1592240755

"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." -- The Encyclopedia of Fantasy This book is part of the "The Biography of Manuel" series. Here are some other books from this series: "Something about Eve" First published in 1927 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: "The Silver Stallion" First published in 1926 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: "Figures of Earth" First published in 1921 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: "Jurgen" First published in 1919 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: "The Cream of the Jest" First published in 1917 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: "The Certain Hour" First published in 1916 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: "Domnei" First published in 1913 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: Similar books: The Silver Stallion by James Branch Cabell Figures of Earth by James Branch Cabell Something about Eve by James Branch Cabell Caledon Of The Mists by Deborah Turner Harris The Fallible Fiend by L. Sprague de Camp The Habitation of the Blessed by Catherynne M. Valente The Innamorati by Midori Snyder The Wizard of Whitechapel by Simon Hawke Banner of the Damned by Sherwood Smith The Blacksmith's Son by Michael G. Manning Empire of Sand by Tasha Suri Cats Have No Lord by Will Shetterly Jack Of Ravens by Mark Chadbourn War Maid's Choice by David Weber The Kingdoms of Dust by Amanda Downum Jurgen by James Branch Cabell The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss The Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson Dawn of Wonder by Jonathan Renshaw Assassin's Fate by Robin Hobb