“The Terrible and Marvellous History of Manuel Pig-Tender That Afterwards Was Named Manuel the Redeemer.”

— James Branch Cabell

Title of a fictional work that he "quotes" from at the start of the book.
The Certain Hour (1916)

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American author 1879–1958

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