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
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 8, 2021
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Preface
2Book First
3I Introduces the Ageless Woman
4II Wherein a Clerk Appraises a Fair Country
5III Of the Double-Dealer’s Traffic With a Knave
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6IV How the Double-Dealer Was of Two Minds
7V Treats of Maugis D’Aigremont’s Pottage
8VI Journeys End: With the Customary Unmasking
9Book Second
10I Of a Trifle Found in Twilight
11II Beyond Use and Wont Fares the Road to Storisende
12III Of Idle Speculations in a Library
13IV How There Was a Light in the Fog
14V Of Publishing: With an Unlikely Appendix
15VI Suggesting Themes of Universal Appeal
16VII Peculiar Conduct of a Personage
17VIII Of Vain Regret and Wonder in the Dark
18Book Third
19I They Come to a High Place
20II Of the Sigil and One Use of It
21III Treats of a Prelate and, in Part, of Pigeons
22IV Local Laws of Nephelococcygia
23V Of Divers Fleshly Riddles
24VI In Pursuit of a Whisper
25VII Of Truisms: Treated Reasonably
26Book Fourth
27I Economic Considerations of Piety
28II Deals With Pen Scratches
29III By-Products of Rational Endeavor
30IV “Epper Si Muove”
31V Evolution of a Vestryman
32Book Fifth
33I Of Poetic Love: Treated with Poetic Inefficiency
34II Cross-Purposes in Spacious Times
35III Horvendile to Ettarre: At Whitehall
36IV Horvendile to Ettarre: At Vaux-le-Vicomte
37V Horvendile to Ettarre: In the Conciergerie
38VI Of One Enigma that Threatened to Prove Allegorical
39VII Treats of Witches, Mixed Drinks, and the Weather
40Book Sixth
41I Sundry Disclosures of the Press
42II Considerations Toward Sunset
43III One Way of Elusion
44IV Past Storisende Fares the Road of Use and Wont
45V Which Mr. Flaherty Does Not Quite Explain
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