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A hero devoted the medieval values of chivalry sets out on a journey across space and time in search of ideal love. From Poictesme to Cocaigne, Heaven to Hell, Jurgen encounters such legendary women as Guinevere, Helen, Chloris, and the Lady of the Lake. Jurgen, A Comedy of Justice is a comic fantasy novel by James Branch Cabell.

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A hero devoted the medieval values of chivalry sets out on a journey across space and time in search of ideal love. From Poictesme to Cocaigne, Heaven to Hell, Jurgen encounters such legendary women as Guinevere, Helen, Chloris, and the Lady of the Lake. Jurgen, A Comedy of Justice is a comic fantasy novel by James Branch Cabell.
Autorenporträt
James Branch Cabell (1879-1958) was an American writer of escapist and fantasy fiction. Born into a wealthy family in the state of Virginia, Cabell attended the College of William and Mary, where he graduated in 1898 following a brief personal scandal. His first stories began to be published, launching a productive decade in which Cabell's worked appeared in both Harper's Monthly Magazine and The Saturday Evening Post. Over the next forty years, Cabell would go on to publish fifty-two books, many of them novels and short-story collections. A friend, colleague, and inspiration for such writers as Ellen Glasgow, H.L. Mencken, Sinclair Lewis, and Theodore Dreiser, James Branch Cabell is remembered as an iconoclastic pioneer of fantasy literature.