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•  The Cream of the Jest • interior artwork by Frank C. Papé
• fep •  The Cream of the Jest (endpapers) • interior artwork by Frank C. Papé
• frontispiece •  Nightly He Went Adventuring with Etarre • interior artwork by Frank C. Papé
• vii • A Note on Lichfield • [Biography of the Life of Manuel] • essay by James Branch Cabell
• xiii • Introduction (The Cream of the Jest) • (1922) • essay by Harold Ward
• 3 • The Cream of the Jest • [Biography of the Life of Manuel • 18] • (1917) • novel by James Branch Cabell
• facing 26 •  Horvendile waited beside the dead body • interior artwork by Frank C. Papé
• facing 56 •  The universe seemed to fold about him • interior artwork by Frank C. Papé
• facing 88 •  "La, it is Horvendile!, and we are having the same dream again!" • interior artwork by Frank C. Papé
• facing 104 •  A Dream Would Usually Begin with Some Lighthearted Topsiturviness • interior artwork by Frank C. Papé
• facing 134 •  A Monk Erasing a Song of Sappho's from a Parchment • interior artwork by Frank C. Papé
• facing 138 •  "And the years of Adam's life were 930" • interior artwork by Frank C. Papé
• facing 172 •  It was as a lover that his role most engrossed him • interior artwork by Frank C. Papé
• facing 186 •  "The insult is sufficient. Draw, and have done!" • interior artwork by Frank C. Papé
• facing 200 •  She touched Kennaston upon the breast, so that the dream might end • interior artwork by Frank C. Papé
• facing 212 •  "He usually attended in the form of a monstrous goat" • interior artwork by Frank C. Papé
• facing 236 •  Kennaston read contentedly for a couple of hours • interior artwork by Frank C. Papé