The Cream of the Jest

About this eBook

Author

Cabell, James Branch, 1879-1958

Title

The Cream of the Jest: A comedy of evasions

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.)

Language

English

LoC Class

PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature

Subject

Dreams -- Fiction

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 66146

Release Date

August 26, 2021

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THE CREAM OF THE JEST
2. 2.Contents
3. 3.Preface
4. 4.I Introduces the Ageless Woman
5. 5.II Wherein a Clerk Appraises a Fair Country
6. 6.III Of the Double-Dealer’s Traffic With a Knave
7. 7.IV How the Double-Dealer Was of Two Minds
8. 8.V Treats of Maugis D’Aigremont’s Pottage
9. 9.VI Journeys End: With the Customary Unmasking
10. 10.I Of a Trifle Found in Twilight
11. 11.II Beyond Use and Wont Fares the Road to Storisende
12. 12.III Of Idle Speculations in a Library
13. 13.IV How There Was a Light in the Fog
14. 14.V Of Publishing: With an Unlikely Appendix
15. 15.VI Suggesting Themes of Universal Appeal
16. 16.VII Peculiar Conduct of a Personage
17. 17.VIII Of Vain Regret and Wonder in the Dark
18. 18.I They Come to a High Place
19. 19.II Of the Sigil and One Use of It
20. 20.III Treats of a Prelate and, in Part, of Pigeons
21. 21.IV Local Laws of Nephelococcygia
22. 22.V Of Divers Fleshly Riddles
23. 23.VI In Pursuit of a Whisper
24. 24.VII Of Truisms: Treated Reasonably
25. 25.I Economic Considerations of Piety
26. 26.II Deals With Pen Scratches
27. 27.III By-Products of Rational Endeavor
28. 28.IV “Epper Si Muove”
29. 29.V Evolution of a Vestryman
30. 30.I Of Poetic Love: Treated with Poetic Inefficiency
31. 31.II Cross-Purposes in Spacious Times
32. 32.III Horvendile to Ettarre: At Whitehall
33. 33.IV Horvendile to Ettarre: At Vaux-le-Vicomte
34. 34.V Horvendile to Ettarre: In the Conciergerie
35. 35.VI Of One Enigma that Threatened to Prove Allegorical
36. 36.VII Treats of Witches, Mixed Drinks, and the Weather
37. 37.I Sundry Disclosures of the Press
38. 38.II Considerations Toward Sunset
39. 39.III One Way of Elusion
40. 40.IV Past Storisende Fares the Road of Use and Wont
41. 41.V Which Mr. Flaherty Does Not Quite Explain

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