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Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice

James Branch Cabell
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"Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice," an entry in the Poictesme series, is an epic fantasy voyage as well as an erotic fable. Cabell himself wrote: "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." Jurgen was banned for decades because of its explicit content. It was, and remains, a groundbreaking early fantasy novel and a worthy addition to the Wildside Fantasy Classics line.
Genres: FantasyFictionClassicsHumorMythologyNovelsComedyLiteratureSpeculative FictionScience Fiction Fantasy
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