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Jurgen

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Jurgen, novel by James Branch Cabell, published in 1919. The New York Society for the Prevention of Vice declared Jurgen obscene and banned all displays and sales of the book. Both Jurgen and Cabell achieved considerable notoriety during the two years the book could not be sold legally; when the case came to trial, the judge recommended acquittal. One of a series of novels Cabell wrote about the mythical medieval kingdom of Poictesme, the book chronicles the adventures of a pawnbroker named Jurgen who, motivated by guilt and gossip, sets off reluctantly in search of Dame Lisa, his loquacious nagging ...(100 of 157 words)

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