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    There Were Two Pirates
    There Were Two Pirates
    There Were Two Pirates
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    There Were Two Pirates

    By James Branch Cabell

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    His name was José Gasparilla, and he was the
    self-proclaimed King of Pirates. He terrorized
    the waters around Florida, demanding tribute
    from every merchant ship he encountered.
    Riches flowed into his tiny island kingdom...and yet he longed for a life he could never have,
    for he had left his beloved Isabel behind in Spain.
    One day he would return to claim her for his
    bride, for she had vowed to wait for him.


    When he captures a ship and discovers Isabel
    and her elderly husband aboard, he strikes a
    deal with the man who stole his bride. A chance
    to regain the lost years of his life...to live his
    childhood again and pick a new path, in the
    Land Without Shadow...


    There Were Two Pirates is a fantasy adventure in
    James Branch Cabell’s best style, and a terrific
    addition to the Wildside Fantasy Classics line.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWildside Press
    Release dateMar 29, 2018
    ISBN9781479415984
    There Were Two Pirates
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    James Branch Cabell

    James Branch Cabell (1879-1958) was an American writer of escapist and fantasy fiction. Born into a wealthy family in the state of Virginia, Cabell attended the College of William and Mary, where he graduated in 1898 following a brief personal scandal. His first stories began to be published, launching a productive decade in which Cabell’s worked appeared in both Harper’s Monthly Magazine and The Saturday Evening Post. Over the next forty years, Cabell would go on to publish fifty-two books, many of them novels and short-story collections. A friend, colleague, and inspiration for such writers as Ellen Glasgow, H.L. Mencken, Sinclair Lewis, and Theodore Dreiser, James Branch Cabell is remembered as an iconoclastic pioneer of fantasy literature.

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