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Jurgen

James Branch Cabell

Novelsabout 10 h 30 min of listening

Jurgen, a pawnbroker and “monstrous clever fellow,” is sent on a witty and parodic magical journey in search of true love.

Contents

  1. Imprint
  2. Epigraph
  3. Dedication
  4. A Foreword: Which Asserts Nothing
  5. Epigraph
  6. Jurgen
  7. I: Why Jurgen Did the Manly Thing
  8. II: Assumption of a Noted Garment
  9. III: The Garden Between Dawn and Sunrise
  10. IV: The Dorothy Who Did Not Understand
  11. V: Requirements of Bread and Butter
  12. VI: Showing That Sereda Is Feminine
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  1. VII: Of Compromises on a Wednesday
  2. VIII: Old Toys and a New Shadow
  3. IX: The Orthodox Rescue of Guenevere
  4. X: Pitiful Disguises of Thragnar
  5. XI: Appearance of the Duke of Logreus
  6. XII: Excursus of Yolande’s Undoing
  7. XIII: Philosophy of Gogyrvan Gawr
  8. XIV: Preliminary Tactics of Duke Jurgen
  9. XV: Of Compromises in Glathion
  10. XVI: Divers Imbroglios of King Smoit
  11. XVII: About a Cock That Crowed Too Soon
  12. XVIII: Why Merlin Talked in Twilight
  13. XIX: The Brown Man with Queer Feet
  14. XX: Efficacy of Prayer
  15. XXI: How Anaïtis Voyaged
  16. XXII: As to a Veil They Broke
  17. XXIII: Shortcomings of Prince Jurgen
  18. XXIV: Of Compromises in Cocaigne
  19. XXV: Cantraps of the Master Philologist
  20. XXVI: In Time’s Hourglass
  21. XXVII: Vexatious Estate of Queen Helen
  22. XXVIII: Of Compromises in Leukê
  23. XXIX: Concerning Horvendile’s Nonsense
  24. XXX: Economics of King Jurgen
  25. XXXI: The Fall of Pseudopolis
  26. XXXII: Sundry Devices of the Philistines
  27. XXXIII: Farewell to Chloris
  28. XXXIV: How Emperor Jurgen Fared Infernally
  29. XXXV: What Grandfather Satan Reported
  30. XXXVI: Why Coth Was Contradicted
  31. XXXVII: Invention of the Lovely Vampire
  32. XXXVIII: As to Applauded Precedents
  33. XXXIX: Of Compromises in Hell
  34. XL: The Ascension of Pope Jurgen
  35. XLI: Of Compromises in Heaven
  36. XLII: Twelve That Are Fretted Hourly
  37. XLIII: Postures Before a Shadow
  38. XLIV: In the Manager’s Office
  39. XLV: The Faith of Guenevere
  40. XLVI: The Desire of Anaïtis
  41. XLVII: The Vision of Helen
  42. XLVIII: Candid Opinions of Dame Lisa
  43. XLIX: Of the Compromise with Koshchei
  44. L: The Moment That Did Not Count
  45. Colophon
  46. Uncopyright

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