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The Biography of Manuel is a fantasy series by James Branch Cabell. It traces the life of the fictional character Dom Manuel who became Count of Poictesme (a fictional province of France), and of his physical and spiritual descendants through many generations. Fantasy is a genre of art, literature, film, television, and music that uses magic and other supernatural forms as a primary element of either plot, theme, setting, or all three. ...
James Branch Cabell photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1935 James Branch Cabell (April 14, 1879 - May 5, 1958) was an American author of fantasy fiction and belles lettres. ...
The series is more fully titled The Biography of the Life of Manuel, notwithstanding the implicit redundancy.
The Biography is a mix of mix of fantasies, historical romances, verse, plays, and essays, but Cabell said that he considered it a single work. The works comprising the Biography are as follows. The numbers refer to the volumes of the uniform Storisende Edition prepared under Cabell's personal supervision. Numbers such as 13a indicate that the work formed only a part of volume 13 of the Storisende Edition.
- Beyond Life #1 (1919) (nominally fiction but essentially an essay on life and fiction-writing)
- Figures of Earth #2 (1921) (The tale of the rise of Dom Manuel himself from pig-boy to count)
- The Silver Stallion #3 (1926) (the story of Manuel's direct heirs)
- Domnei #4a (an earlier version of this was published as The Soul of Melicent)
- The Music from Behind the Moon #4b (1926)
- Chivalry #5 (1909: although the 1909 first edition had no references to Manuel, later revised editions added references to Manuel)
- Jurgen #6 (1919) (Cabell's most famous book)
- The Line of Love #7 (1905)
- The High Place #8 (1923)
- Gallantry #9 (1907)
- Something About Eve #10 (1927)
- The Certain Hour #11 (1916)
- The Cords of Vanity #12 (1909)
- From the Hidden Way #13a (1916) (verse)
- The Jewel Merchants #13b (1921) (play)
- The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck #14 (1915)
- The Eagle's Shadow #15 (1904)
- The Cream of the Jest #16a (1917)
- The Lineage of Lichfield, #16b (1922) (a fantastic genealogy of the Biography)
- Straws and Prayer-Books #17 (1924) (essays, plus one fantasy story)
- Townsend of Lichfield #18a (essay)
- The Way of Ecben #18b (a sort of literary Hail and Fairewell)
- The White Robe #18c
- Sonnets of Antan #18d (verse)
- Taboo, #18e (a thinly veiled fantasy-style recounting of the Jurgen obscenity trial)
- (the #18 Storisende volume also contains several more essays and appendices)
- The Witch-Woman (consists of three related books: The Music From Behind the Moon, The Way of Ecben, and The White Robe, from the Biography, plus a new introduction); (not part of the Storisende edition).
- Preface to the Past (prefaces and notes extracted from the Storisende Edition)
The "Heirs and Assigns" Trio: These are related to the Biography but are not part of the main sequence. - Hamlet Had an Uncle
- The King Was in His Counting House
- The First Gentleman of America
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