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Award-winning writer, narrator, and screenwriter Neil Gaiman individually selected this booklet, and, using the various tools of the Audiobook Creation Exchange (ACX), cast the narrator and produced this improve his audiobook label, Neil Gaiman Presents. A few words from Neil on Information of Earth: "After an initial round of quite strong but not quite perfect auditions, I advised the stars that 'the most important thing with Cabell is being in a position to deadpan a tale. The books are compiled by a Virginia Gentleman who is with the capacity of making the dirtiest of dusty jokes with a in a straight line face, and who is writing High Illusion and Poetry, too.' Robert Blumenfeld captured the highlight and wit of a man who corresponded with H.L. Mencken, Sinclair Lewis, and in his life time counted Draw Twain among his supporters!" Information of Earth, subtitled "A Comedy of Looks", practices the vicissitudes of Dom Manuel the Redeemer from his lowly swineherd origins through his unlikely elevation to the Count number of Poictesme, and beyond. Posted in 1921, it was the second volume of "The Biography of Manuel", Cabell's great work about an imaginary land that also were able to skewer the world of his upbringing as a Southern Gentleman of Virginia, and almost everything else, besides! Poor Manuel begins life as a lowly swineherd, but goes up to become the famous Dom Manuel, the renowned, even mythic, hero of many of Cabell's books. He begins, like the simpleton in "Jack in the Beanstalk" and other folktales, by taking virtually his mother's advice to "go out and make a figure in the world" - and makes Information of clay.... But Manuel turns out to be a grasp of guile, a trickster hero, if you will. His guiding motto is: "The globe wants to be deceived."
