“American literature was enriched with Men Who Loved Allison…. Of the actual and eventual worth of this romance I cannot pretend to be an unprejudiced judge. The tale seems to me one of those many books which have profited, very dubiously indeed, by having obtained, in one way of another, the repute of being indecent.”

—  James Branch Cabell , book The Cream of the Jest

Author's Note (1929 edition)
The Cream of the Jest (1917)

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