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The High Place: A Comedy of Disenchantment

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Title:The High Place: A Comedy of Disenchantment
Author:
Cabell, James Branch   
(2 of 3 for author by title)
Something About Eve
Hamlet had an Uncle
Published:   1923
Publisher:The Bodley Head Limited
Tags:fantasy, fiction
Description:

In the sulphurous The High Place, the amoral hero Florian enters the sleeping-beauty story and (unlike Jurgen with Helen) does not draw back at the sight of excessive beauty. Complications ensue: Beauty is realistically diminished during pregnancy, the first-born child is forfeit to Satan under the pact that guaranteed Florain's success, and an irascible saint is eager to call down holy fire on transgressors. Florian treads close to damnation and is saved only when Satan and the angel Michael conspire to let recent events become, again, a dream: he has a rare second chance and learns better.

—The Encyclopedia of Fantasy [Suggest a different description.]

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