Something About Eve — James Branch Cabell

"Something About Eve, an entry in the Poictesme series, ""shows its non-hero feebly intending to gain promised glory awaiting in the land of 'Antan' but forever delayed on Mispec Moor (anagram: 'Compromise'), wearing literal rose-colored spectacles and beguiled by the woman Maya, while bolder folk like Solomon and Odysseus pass by on the road to Antan."" -The Encyclopedia of Fantasy"