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James Branch Cabell (1879–1958) built the elaborate, ironic fantasy cycle of ‘Biography of the Life of Manuel’, set in the medieval never-land of Poictesme. Jurgen (1919) became a cause célèbre when it was prosecuted for obscenity, making Cabell briefly famous. His arch, allusive, disenchanted style influenced later fantasists from Heinlein to Pratchett, even as his own reputation faded.
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