The Cream of the Jest
by James Branch Cabell
“When your dreams become more real than your life, which world will you choose to call home?”
Felix Kennaston is a novelist who discovers a mysterious sigil that transports him from his mundane life into the vivid, medieval realm of his own imagination. As the boundaries between his suburban reality and the dream-world of Poictesme dissolve, he must decide which existence is truly real and which is merely the 'cream of the jest.'
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