The Cabell, James Branch 1879-1958 creator text utu 2021 monographic en 1 online resource : multiple file formats "The Cream of the Jest: A Comedy of Evasions" by James Branch Cabell is a philosophical novel published in 1917. Writer Felix Kennaston discovers a mysterious broken disk in his garden, which becomes a sigil that unlocks vivid dreams of Ettare, an idealized woman he encounters across different historical periods. As he pursues beauty and meaning through these nocturnal visions, the line between dream and reality blurs. The novel explores humanity's eternal longing for an unattainable ideal, culminating in revelations about the sigil's true nature and what it represents. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cream_of_the_Jest Release date is 2021-08-26 Charlene Taylor, Barry Abrahamsen, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) Original publication data not identified Fantasy fiction Authors -- Fiction Allegories Dreams -- Fiction PS Original publication data not identified 17024970 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/66146 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/66146 UtSlPG 260607 20260610134527.0 66146