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Table of Contents

  1. Titlepage
  2. Imprint
  3. Frontispiece
  4. Dedication
  5. The Cream of the Jest
    1. Book First
      1. I: Palliation of the Gambit
      2. II: Introduces the Ageless Woman
      3. III: Wherein a Clerk Appraises a Fair Country
      4. IV: Of the Double-Dealer’s Traffic with a Knave
      5. V: How the Double-Dealer Was of Two Minds
      6. VI: Treats of Maugis d’Aigremont’s Pottage
      7. VII: Journey’s End: With the Customary Unmasking
    2. Book Second
      1. VIII: Of a Trifle Found in Twilight
      2. IX: Beyond Use and Wont Fares the Road to Storisende
      3. X: Of Idle Speculations in a Library
      4. XI: How There Was a Light in the Fog
      5. XII: Of Publishing: With an Unlikely Appendix
      6. XIII: Suggesting Themes of Universal Appeal
      7. XIV: Peculiar Conduct of a Personage
      8. XV: Of Vain Regret and Wonder in the Dark
    3. Book Third
      1. XVI: They Come to a High Place
      2. XVII: Of the Sigil and One Use of It
      3. XVIII: Treats of a Prelate and, in Part, of Pigeons
      4. XIX: Local Laws of Nephelococcygia
      5. XX: Of Divers Fleshly Riddles
      6. XXI: In Pursuit of a Whisper
      7. XXII: Of Truisms: Treated Reasonably
    4. Book Fourth
      1. XXIII: Economic Considerations of Piety
      2. XXIV: Deals with Pen Scratches
      3. XXV: Byproducts of Rational Endeavor
      4. XXVI: “Epper Si Muove”
      5. XVII: Evolution of a Vestryman
      6. XXVIII: The Shallowest Sort of Mysticism
    5. Book Fifth
      1. XXIX: Of Poetic Love: Treated with Poetic Inefficiency
      2. XXX: Cross-Purposes in Spacious Times
      3. XXXI: Horvendile to Ettarre: At Whitehall
      4. XXXII: Horvendile to Ettarre: At Vaux-le-Vicomte
      5. XXXIII: Horvendile to Ettarre: In the Conciergerie
      6. XXXIV: Of One Enigma That Threatened to Prove Allegorical
      7. XXXV: Treats of Witches, Mixed Drinks, and the Weather
    6. Book Sixth
      1. XXXVI: Sundry Disclosures of the Press
      2. XXXVII: Considerations Toward Sunset
      3. XXXVIII: One Way of Elusion
      4. XXXIX: Past Storisende Fares the Road of Use and Wont
      5. XL: Which Mr. Flaherty Does Not Quite Explain
  6. Colophon
  7. Uncopyright

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  1. The Cream of the Jest