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9780486479156

Jurgen

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  • ISBN13:

    9780486479156

  • ISBN10:

    0486479153

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2011-05-19
  • Publisher: Dover Publications

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Summary

A witty and irreverent landmark of modern fiction, this compelling fantasy recounts a time-traveler's adventures through a supernatural dreamscape. Cabell's allegorical novel recounts romances with Guenevere and The Lady of the Lake and confrontations with God and the Devil. Republication of the definitive 1926 edition. Thirteen full-page illustrations by Frank C. Pape. New Introduction.

Table of Contents

Introduction by Bob Blaisdell
A Foreword: Which Asserts Nothing
I. Why Jurgen Did the Manly Thing
II. Assumption of a Noted Garment
III. The Garden Between Dawn and Sunrise
IV. The Dorothy Who Did Not Understand
V. Requirements of Bread and Butter
VI. Showing that Sereda Is Feminine
VII. Of Compromises on a Wednesday
VIII. Old Toys and a New Shadow
IX. The Orthodox Rescue of Guenevere
X. Pitiful Disguises of Thragnar
XI. Appearance of the Duke of Logreus
XII. Excursus of Yolande's Undoing
XIII.Philosophy of Gogyrvan Gawr
XIV. Preliminary Tactics of Duke Jurgen
XV. Of Compromises in Glathion
XVI. Divers Imbroglios of King Smoit
XVII. About a Cock that Crowed Too Soon
XVIII. Why Merlin Talked in Twilight
XIX. The Brown Man with Queer Feet
XX. Efficacy of Prayer
XXI. How Anaitis Voyaged
XXII. As to a Veil They Broke
XXIII. Shortcomings of Prince Jurgen
XXIV. Of Compromises in Cocaigne
XXV. Cantraps of the Master Philologist
XXVI. In Time's Hour-Glass
XXVII. Vexatious Estate of Queen Helen
XXVIII. Of Compromises in Leuke
XXIX. Concerning Horvendile's Nonsense
XXX. Economics of King Jurgen
XXXI. The Fall of Pseudopolis
XXXII. Sundry Devices of the Philistines
XXXIII. Farewell to Chloris
XXXIV. How Emperor Jurgen Fared Infernally
XXXV. What Grandfather Satan Reported
XXXVI. Why Coth Was Contradicted
XXXVII. Invention of the Lovely Vampire
XXXVIII. As to Applauded Precedents
XXXIX. Of Compromises in Hell
XL. The Ascension of Pope Jurgen
XLI. Of Compromises in Heaven
XLII. Twelve that Are Fretted Hourly
XLIII. Postures Before a Shadow
XLIV. In the Manager's Office
XLV. The Faith of Guenevere
XLVI. The Desire of Anaitis
XLVII. The Vision of Helen
XLVIII. Candid Opinions of Dame Lisa
XLIX. Of the Compromise with Koshchei
L. The Moment that Did Not Count

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