Jurgen

by James Branch Cabell

Overview

Jurgen is an epic voyage as well as an erotic fable and a biographical love story. To quote the author, "This fable is, as the world itself, a book wherein each man will find what his nature enables him to see; which gives us back each his own image; and which teaches us each the lesson that each of us desires to learn." Banned for decades because of its explicit content, this novel was, and still is, a groundbreaker in the fantasy genre. A classic of early modern fantasy, Jurgen has been selling consistently since its original publication in 1919, and has never before been released on audio. Adapted and produced by Peabody-winning radio dramatist Yuri Rasovsky, with an all-star cast the audio includes a booklet of liner notes, giving details of Cabell's and the book's origins.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940000736043
Publisher:	B&R Samizdat Express
Publication date:	09/01/2009
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

James Branch Cabell (April 14, 1879 - May 5, 1958) was an American author of fantasy fiction and belles lettres. Cabell was well regarded by his contemporaries, including H. L. Mencken, Edmund Wilson, and Sinclair Lewis. His works were considered escapist and fit well in the culture of the 1920s, when they were most popular. For Cabell, veracity was "the one unpardonable sin, not merely against art, but against human welfare."

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