Jurgen (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: James Branch Cabell
- First Published: 1919
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Fantasy
- Time of Work: The Middle Ages
- Setting: Poictesme, a mythical land
- Genres: Long fiction, Fantasy
- Subjects: History, Wives, Magic or magicians, Mythology or myths, Time travel, Gods or goddesses, Youth, Middle Ages
- Locales: Spiritual realms, Poictesme (mythic)
Characters Discussed
Jurgen, a middle-aged pawnbroker who, searching for his lost wife, returns twenty years to the days of his youth, in which he thought himself a very clever fellow. After a year, during which he becomes a duke, a prince, a king, an emperor, and a pope, he asks to be returned to plain, practical, and moderately peaceful middle age with his wife, who is rather well suited, after all, to a man such as himself.
Adelais (Dame Lisa), his shrewish wife who, contemptuous of poetry and romance, converted a poet into a pawnbroker.
Dorothy la Désirée,...
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