Let Me Lie

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When "Let Me Lie" was firstpublished 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 paeanto the old South. Readers of this new paperbackedition are unlikely to repeat the mistake. "Let MeLie" is indeed a carefully researched and brilliantly writtenhistorical 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'shistory is "both accurate and injudicious." Virginia's story of itself, Cabellclaims, depends on illusion and myth, and his skill as a satirist allows him toconstruct and deflate these myths simultaneously. Ranging from Don Luis de Velascoand Captain John Smith to Edgar Allan Poe and Ellen Glasgow, from Confederate heroesto the oddities of the post-Civil War Old Dominion, "Let MeLie" remains compulsively readable, as history, entertainment, orboth.