The Cream of the Jest

Name: The Cream of the Jest
Author: James Branch Cabell

by James Branch Cabell

Fantasy romance of a dreamer's quest through an imagined realm of beauty

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James Branch Cabell

James Branch Cabell was a celebrated ironist who created the fantastical medieval realm of Poictesme as a vehicle for his skeptical, witty commentary on human idealism and sexuality. The suppression of his novel Jurgen made him a cause célèbre.

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