Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice

Jurgen | James Branch Cabell

I remember little about this book . Read it years ago because he was hugely popular in the 1920s.When you read say the ones of the lost generation who became considered classics like Hemingway, Fitzgerald & the ones not quite as influential like Sinclair Lewis & DosPassos , you kinda want to read the popular ones just to get the zeitgeist.Looking at you ,👀 @Bookwomble 😂published in 1919 , this copy 20th printing, 1927

Bookwomble Ooh, that's a nice copy 😍 3y

Bookwomble I realise that this is a most Hipster thing to say, but often the more interesting writers are the less popular. I do like taking a chance on more obscure authors, though that sometimes means me coming home with a Fanny Cradock book! I don't know how to explain the comedy of that to a non-British person 😆 3y

Leftcoastzen @Bookwomble I‘m part British so I think I get it.That Fanny photo , does look a bit like a drag queen! saying that I mean not to disparage women or drag queens!😂 3y

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Bookwomble @Leftcoastzen I guess it's a look more comparable to Bette Davis in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, which is unkind, I know. Well, I'll see when I eventually read the book. 3y

Leftcoastzen @Bookwomble 😂 3y

LeahBergen That‘s a gorgeous edition! 3y

Leftcoastzen @LeahBergen thanks! I have had it for many years! 3y

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Jurgen | James Branch Cabell

I got this 1940 Penguin of Cabell's "Jurgen", described as a satirical fantasy, set in the fictional medieval French province of Poictesme (pron. Pwa-tem). It's pretty clean & tight for an 82 year-old paperback.
It tells of the title character's increasingly fantastic encounters with ladies from Arthurian & classical legend. To further recommend it, in 1920 The New York Society for the Suppression of Vice unsuccessfully tried to get it banned.

Leftcoastzen I remember it being an odd little story, he was big in his day! Love old Penguins! 3y

Bookwomble @Leftcoastzen I've seen his name come up loads as an early influence on modern fantasy. I had copies of Figures of Earth and The Silver Stallion for years, never read them and in a fit of madness decided I never would and donated them 😳 I'll see how I do with Jurgen, though, before thinking to replace them. Me love old Penguins too🐧🧡 😊 3y

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