THE CREAM OF THE JEST
Reading edition
BOOKS BY MR. CABELL
NOVELS:
THE CREAM OF THE JEST
THE SOUL OF MELICENT
THE RIVET IN GRANDFATHER’S NECK
THE CORDS OF VANITY
THE EAGLE’S SHADOW
TALES:
THE CERTAIN HOUR
CHIVALRY
THE LINE OF LOVE
GALLANTRY
VERSES:
FROM THE HIDDEN WAY
GENEALOGIES:
BRANCH OF ABINGDON
BRANCHIANA
THE MAJORS AND THEIR MARRIAGES
THE
CREAM
OF THE
JEST
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A Comedy of Evasions
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BY
JAMES BRANCH CABELL
“Le pays où je voulais aller, tu m’y as mené en songe, cette nuit, et tu étais belle ... ah! que tu étais belle!... Mais, comme je n’ai aimé que ton ombre, tu me dispenseras, chère tête, de remercier ta réalité.”
NEW YORK
ROBERT M. McBRIDE & COMPANY
1917
Copyright, 1917, by
Robert M. McBride & Co.
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Published September, 1917
TO
LOUISA NELSON
“At me ab amore tuo diducet
nulla senectus.”
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