- Classic Literature, Fantasy, Fiction, Middle Ages
"Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice," an entry in the Poictesme series, is an epic fantasy voyage as well as an erotic fable. Cabell himself wrote: "This fable is, as the world itself, a book wherein each man will find what his nature enables him to see; which gives us back each his own image; and which teaches us each the lesson that each of us desires to learn."
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Epic, cool, open-ended and warm.
- intimateepic
- cooloverwhelming
- resolvedopen-ended
- warmbleak
- gravecomic
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- Author
- James Branch Cabell
- First published
- 1919
- Pages
- 284
- Publisher
- Bodley Head, McBride, IndyPublish.com
- Editions
- 259
- Language
- yid, English
- ISBN
- 9798498326818
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“IT is a tale which they narrate in Poictesme, saying: In the old days lived a pawnbroker named Jurgen; but what his wife called him was very often much worse than that.”
James Branch Cabell was an American author of fantasy fiction and belles letters. He has written fifty-two books, including novels, genealogies, collections of short stories, poetry, magazine articles, and miscellanea. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1937. - Source:Wikipedia
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