The Cream of the Jest
Author | : James Branch Cabell |
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Total Pages | : 43 |
Release | : 1917 |
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Author | : James Branch Cabell |
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Total Pages | : 43 |
Release | : 1917 |
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Author | : James Branch Cabell |
Publisher | : London J. Lane [1923] |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 1917 |
Genre | : American literature |
ISBN | : |
"The Cream of the Jest : A Comedy of Evasions 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. An early reviewer said it was more a series of essays than a novel" --
Author | : James Branch Cabell |
Publisher | : Standard Ebooks |
Total Pages | : 181 |
Release | : 2020-05-15T22:35:17Z |
Genre | : Fiction |
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The Cream of the Jest is a later entry in James Branch Cabell’s Dom Manuel series. The series as a whole is a fantasy series, and this entry takes a philosophical turn: after the first few chapters of standard high-fantasy fare, the narrative pulls out to reveal the point of view of the narrative’s author, Felix Kennaston. Kennaston life slowly starts to blur with his fantasy world. He finds himself constantly dreaming of Etarre, a mysterious, Beatrice-like figure; but every time he tries to touch her, he wakes up. Soon his neglected wife begins to blur in to Etarre, and his increasingly-philosophical dream worlds begin to become less distinguishable from his day-to-day life. Though The Cream of the Jest is a kind of capstone to a larger fantasy series, the book itself feels more like philosophy than fantasy. Kennaston’s journeys through his dream worlds explore a series of thoughtful threads, from the interface of thought and reality, to the power of religion, to the human condition. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.
Author | : James Branch Cabell |
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Total Pages | : 275 |
Release | : 1944 |
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Author | : Bartlett Jere Whiting |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 626 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780674219816 |
p.B. J. Whiting savors proverbial expressions and has devoted much of his lifetime to studying and collecting them; no one knows more about British and American proverbs than he. The present volume, based upon writings in British North America from the earliest settlements to approximately 1820, complements his and Archer Taylor's Dictionary of American Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases, 1820-1880. It differs from that work and from other standard collections, however, in that its sources are primarily not "literary" but instead workaday writings - letters, diaries, histories, travel books, political pamphlets, and the like. The authors represent a wide cross-section of the populace, from scholars and statesmen to farmers, shopkeepers, sailors, and hunters. Mr. Whiting has combed all the obvious sources and hundreds of out-of-the-way publications of local journals and historical societies. This body of material, "because it covers territory that has not been extracted and compiled in a scholarly way before, can justly be said to be the most valuable of all those that Whiting has brought together," according to Albert B. Friedman. "What makes the work important is Whiting's authority: a proverb or proverbial phrase is what BJW thinks is a proverb or proverbial phrase. There is no objective operative definition of any value, no divining rod; his tact, 'feel, ' experience, determine what's the real thing and what is spurious."
Author | : James Branch Cabell |
Publisher | : Literary Licensing, LLC |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2014-03 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781498003865 |
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1917 Edition.
Author | : JAMES BRANCH. CABELL |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2019 |
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ISBN | : 9781033628492 |
Author | : James Branch Cabell |
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Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2012-03-31 |
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ISBN | : 9781622362165 |
Author | : James Branch Cabell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 205 |
Release | : 1975 |
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Author | : James Branch Cabell |
Publisher | : Nabu Press |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2014-01-14 |
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ISBN | : 9781295524273 |
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