James Branch Cabell ~6 hr read

A middle-aged pawnbroker, granted his lost youth, embarks on a year-long journey through myth, faerie, hell, and heaven in search of desire, and discovers what he truly wants.

James Branch Cabell's 1919 novel is a witty, erotic, and philosophically rich fantasy that became a celebrated cause when authorities tried to ban it. Sophisticated, ironic, dazzling. Read it for a landmark of adult literary fantasy, a comedy of justice as beautiful as it is sly.

In its time

Published in 1919, during the 1910s, lost worlds and interplanetary adventure.

Reading it

~6 hr read (a novel-length work, settle in).