The Cream of the Jest, A Comedy of Evasions
By James Branch Cabell
Length5h 5m
About this audiobook
The Cream of the Jest : A Comedy of Evasions[1] is a comical and philosophical novel with possible fantasy elements, by James Branch Cabell, published in 1917. Much of it consists of the historical dreams and philosophical reflections of the main character, the famous writer Felix Kennaston. The novel takes place almost entirely around Lichfield, Virginia, Cabell's fictionalization of Richmond, Virginia,[3] particularly in Kennaston's house, in the country. However, Kennaston's dreams take place in various parts of Europe and the Mediterranean basin at various times in the past. Also, part of The Cream of the Jest consists of the ending of the first version of Kennaston's novel, which is set in the Middle Ages around the castle of Storisende in a mythical country.
Audiobook details
GenreGeneral Fiction, Literary Classics
Length5 hrs 5 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 8, 2021
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Preface
24VI In Pursuit of a Whisper
2Book First
25VII Of Truisms: Treated Reasonably
3I Introduces the Ageless Woman
26Book Fourth
4II Wherein a Clerk Appraises a Fair Country
27I Economic Considerations of Piety
5III Of the Double-Dealer’s Traffic With a Knave
28II Deals With Pen Scratches
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6IV How the Double-Dealer Was of Two Minds
29III By-Products of Rational Endeavor
7V Treats of Maugis D’Aigremont’s Pottage
30IV “Epper Si Muove”
8VI Journeys End: With the Customary Unmasking
31V Evolution of a Vestryman
9Book Second
32Book Fifth
10I Of a Trifle Found in Twilight
33I Of Poetic Love: Treated with Poetic Inefficiency
11II Beyond Use and Wont Fares the Road to Storisende
34II Cross-Purposes in Spacious Times
12III Of Idle Speculations in a Library
35III Horvendile to Ettarre: At Whitehall
13IV How There Was a Light in the Fog
36IV Horvendile to Ettarre: At Vaux-le-Vicomte
14V Of Publishing: With an Unlikely Appendix
37V Horvendile to Ettarre: In the Conciergerie
15VI Suggesting Themes of Universal Appeal
38VI Of One Enigma that Threatened to Prove Allegorical
16VII Peculiar Conduct of a Personage
39VII Treats of Witches, Mixed Drinks, and the Weather
17VIII Of Vain Regret and Wonder in the Dark
40Book Sixth
18Book Third
41I Sundry Disclosures of the Press
19I They Come to a High Place
42II Considerations Toward Sunset
20II Of the Sigil and One Use of It
43III One Way of Elusion
21III Treats of a Prelate and, in Part, of Pigeons
44IV Past Storisende Fares the Road of Use and Wont
22IV Local Laws of Nephelococcygia
45V Which Mr. Flaherty Does Not Quite Explain
23V Of Divers Fleshly Riddles
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