The Cream of the Jest 1st Edition by James Branch Cabell ISBN 054800787X 9780548007877

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ISBN 10: 054800787X
ISBN 13: 9780548007877
Author: James Branch Cabell

The Cream of the Jest (1923) is a novel by James Branch Cabell. Set in a world where history and fantasy collide, where a lowly pawnbroker can encounter monsters, gods, and devils, The Cream of the Jest is one work in a series of novels, essays, and poems known as the Biography of the Life of Manuel. Partly inspired by the obscenity trial surrounding his novel Jurgen, a Comedy of Justice, The Cream of the Jest is a metafictional blend of literary criticism and fantasy fiction about an author whose sudden fame shocks his sleepy hometown. To the people of Lichfield, Felix Kennaston is an unremarkable neighbor whose literary ambitions are pursued in secrecy and obscurity. While completing a fantasy novel, he discovers a strange talisman not unlike the one his hero Horvendile presented to his beloved Ettare. That night, Felix meets Ettare in a dream, inspiring him to rewrite the story’s ending. When it is published, charges of obscenity threaten to sink his dreams before they can be realized. But critical attention has the opposite effect, making Kennaston a bestselling author overnight. Told from the perspective of Richard Harrowby, a neighbor from Lichfield, The Cream of the Jest is a fascinating blend of literary criticism and fantasy that poses important questions about the divide between fiction and the world we live in. Cabell’s work has long been described as escapist, his novels and stories derided as fantastic and obsessive recreations of a world lost long ago. To read The Cream of the Jest, however, is to understand that the issues therein—the struggle for power, the unspoken distance between men and women—were vastly important not only at the time of its publication, but in our own, divisive world. This edition of James Branch Cabell’s The Cream of the Jest is a classic of fantasy and romance reimagined for modern readers.

The Cream of the Jest 1st Edition Table of contents:

Book First

I. Introduces the Ageless Woman

II. Wherein a Clerk Appraises a Fair Country

III. Of the Double-Dealer’s Traffic With a Knave

IV. How the Double-Dealer Was of Two Minds

V. Treats of Maugis D’Aigremont’s Pottage

VI. Journeys End: With the Customary Unmasking

Book Second

I. Of a Trifle Found in Twilight

II. Beyond Use and Wont Fares the Road to Storisende

III. Of Idle Speculations in a Library

IV. How There Was a Light in the Fog

V. Of Publishing: With an Unlikely Appendix

VI. Suggesting Themes of Universal Appeal

VII. Peculiar Conduct of a Personage

VIII. Of Vain Regret and Wonder in the Dark

Book Third

I. They Come to a High Place

II. Of the Sigil and One Use of It

III. Treats of a Prelate and, in Part, of Pigeons

IV. Local Laws of Nephelococcygia

V. Of Divers Fleshly Riddles

VI. In Pursuit of a Whisper

VII. Of Truisms: Treated Reasonably

Book Fourth

I. Economic Considerations of Piety

II. Deals with Pen Scratches

III. By-Products of Rational Endeavor

IV. “Epper Si Muove”

V. Evolution of a Vestryman

Book Fifth

I. Of Poetic Love: Treated with Poetic Inefficiency

II. Cross-Purposes in Spacious Times

III. Horvendile to Ettarre: At Whitehall

IV. Horvendile to Ettarre: At Vaux-le-Vicomte

V. Horvendile to Ettarre: In the Conciergerie

VI. Of One Enigma that Threatened to Prove Allegorical

VII. Treats of Witches, Mixed Drinks, and the Weather

Book Sixth

I. Sundry Disclosures of the Press

II. Considerations toward Sunset

III. One Way of Elusion

IV. Past Storisende Fares the Road of Use and Wont

V. Which Mr. Flaherty Does Not Quite Explain

A Note About the Author

A Note from the Publisher

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