The Cream of the Jest (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)

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Felix Kennaston told his neighbor, Richard Harrowby, about his dreams. In writing his novels, Kennaston had created a world much different from the ordinary world of the Virginia countryside, and his dreams contained similar elements of the romantic and the marvelous. To Harrowby, the whole thing seemed indecent, for Harrowby was a conventional, unimaginative gentleman farmer who had made his money in soaps and beauty aids.

Kennaston was writing a novel called The Audit at Storisende, and in his dreams he identified himself with a character named...

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