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The Cream of the Jest -  A comedy of evasions

The Cream of the Jest - A comedy of evasions

by James Branch Cabell

MUCH has been written critically about Felix Kennaston since the disappearance of his singular personality from the field of contemporary writers; and Mr. Froser’s Biography contains all it is necessary to know as to the facts of Kennaston’s life. Yet most readers of the Biography, I think, must have felt that the great change in Kennaston no long ..

The High Place: A Comedy of Disenchantment

The High Place: A Comedy of Disenchantment

by James Branch Cabell

PROBABLY Florian would never have gone into the Forest of Acaire had he not been told, over and over again, to keep out of it. Obedience to those divinely set in authority was in 1698 still modish: none the less, such orders, so insistently repeated to any normal boy of ten, even to a boy not born of the restless house of Puysange, must make the ve..