James Branch Cabell 3 hr 2 min read

By day a suburban novelist, by night Felix Kennaston is carried in dreams to a shimmering imagined world, drawn on by a broken talisman and the elusive vision of an ideal beloved.

James Branch Cabell's 1917 novel is a witty, ironic fantasy of dream and disillusion. Elegant, allusive, sophisticated. Read it for a subtle Cabell masterwork, a man's double life between mundane reality and a gorgeous dream-realm, and the wry revelation waiting at the heart of the jest.

In its time

Published in 1917, during the 1910s, lost worlds and interplanetary adventure.

Reading it

3 hr 2 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).