Figures of earth
Subtitle: a comedy of appearances
By: by James Branch Cabell.
Publisher: R. M. McBride & co.
Published: 1921
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 356
Description: The story of Manuel, a swineherd in thirteenth-century France, who becomes Count Manuel of Poictesme. The motto on his coat of arms is "Mundus Vult Decipi"--The world wishes to be deceived. It is in playing on others' expectations that he rises to hero status and becomes Manuel the Redeemer.