{"product_id":"let-me-lie-james-branch-cabell-9780813920436","title":"Let Me Lie: Being in the Main an Ethnological Account of the Remarkable Commonwealth of Virginia and the Making of Its History","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen \u003ci\u003eLet Me Lie\u003c\/i\u003e was first published in 1947, most reviewers missed the double meaning of the book's title. Deaf to James Branch Cabell's many-layered ironic wit, they read the book as a paean to the old South.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReaders of this new paperback edition are unlikely to repeat the mistake. \u003ci\u003eLet Me Lie\u003c\/i\u003e is indeed a carefully researched and brilliantly written historical narrative of Virginia from 1559 to 1946--focusing on Tidewater, Richmond, and the Northern Neck--but as a fictional scholar remarks in the book, Cabell's history is \"both accurate and injudicious.\" Virginia's story of itself, Cabell claims, depends on illusion and myth, and his skill as a satirist allows him to construct and deflate these myths simultaneously. Ranging from Don Luis de Velasco and Captain John Smith to Edgar Allan Poe and Ellen Glasgow, from Confederate heroes to the oddities of the post-Civil War Old Dominion, \u003ci\u003eLet Me Lie\u003c\/i\u003e remains compulsively readable, as history, entertainment, or both.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e James Branch Cabell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0813920434\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780813920436\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Virginia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/29\/2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 286\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.88lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.27h x 5.54w x 0.87d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2001 pg. 54","brand":"James Branch Cabell","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48448981762303,"sku":"9780813920436","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_606d30e2-c7c9-405b-a869-1f4ba5d2818b.jpg?v=1777261436","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/let-me-lie-james-branch-cabell-9780813920436","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}