Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice by James Branch Cabell

"Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice" by James Branch Cabell is a fantasy novel published in 1919. This humorous romp follows the clever hero Jurgen through a medieval cosmos as he searches for a parodied courtly love. His journey takes him through fantastic realms including Heaven and Hell, where he encounters eccentric knights, legendary women like Helen of Troy and Queen Guinevere, and even the Devil's wife. This acerbic satire of contemporary America became a landmark in comic fantasy, later influencing writers like Terry Pratchett. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Cabell, James Branch, 1879-1958
Title Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurgen:_A_Comedy_of_Justice
Credits Produced by Suzanne L. Shell, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. With thanks to the McCain Library, Agnes Scott College
Reading Level Reading ease score: 69.8 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read.
Language English
LoC Class PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
Subject Historical fiction
Subject Fantasy fiction
Subject Middle Ages -- Fiction
Subject Allegories
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EBook-No. 8771
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Copyright Status Public domain in the USA.
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