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Jurgen

James Branch Cabell

2003292 pagesabout 4–7 hours
2003
first published
  • 2007Wildside Press · 304 pages · ENGISBN 9780809572151
  • 2004IndyPublish.com · 300 pages · ENGISBN 9781414225180
  • 2007Kessinger Publishing, LLC · 376 pages · ENGISBN 9780548010037
  • 2003IndyPublish.com · 300 pages · ENGISBN 9781414201788
  • 2003IndyPublish.com · 300 pages · ENGISBN 9781414201795
  • 2007Wildside Press · 372 pages · ENGISBN 9781434488565
  • 2007Wildside Press · 372 pages · ENGISBN 9781434488572
  • 2006BiblioBazaar · 292 pages · ENGISBN 9781426431937

"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.

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Character focusTwo hander

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Romance levelCentral

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ThemesLove
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