The Cream of the Jest: A comedy of evasions by James Branch Cabell
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"The Cream of the Jest: A Comedy of Evasions" by James Branch Cabell is a philosophical novel published in 1917. Writer Felix Kennaston discovers a mysterious broken disk in his garden, which becomes a sigil that unlocks vivid dreams of Ettare, an idealized woman he encounters across different historical periods. As he pursues beauty and meaning through these nocturnal visions, the line between dream and reality blurs. The novel explores humanity's eternal
longing for an unattainable ideal, culminating in revelations about the sigil's true nature and what it represents. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Cabell, James Branch, 1879-1958 |
|---|---|
| LoC No. | 17024970 |
| Title | The Cream of the Jest: A comedy of evasions |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cream_of_the_Jest |
| Credits | Charlene Taylor, Barry Abrahamsen, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 66.3 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature |
| Subject | Fantasy fiction |
| Subject | Authors -- Fiction |
| Subject | Allegories |
| Subject | Dreams -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 66146 |
| ISBN (HTML) | 979-8-238-66146-9 |
| Release Date | Aug 26, 2021 |
| Last Update | Oct 18, 2024 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 504 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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