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> # James Branch Cabell made this book so that he who wills may read the story of mans \[sic\] eternally unsatisfied hunger in search of beauty. Ettarre stays inaccessible always and her lovliness \[sic\] is his to look on only in his dreams. All men she must evade at the last and many ar \[sic\] the ways of her elusion.

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## More from James Branch Cabell

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2. > The insect looked at Jurgen, and its pincers rose erect in horror. The bug cried to the three judges, - Now, by St. Anthony! this Jurgen must forthwith be rele…

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