Jurgen (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

Published in 1919, and the subject of a notorious obscenity trial, Jurgen is the second in Cabell''s Poictesme series, and is certainly the author''s most famous novel.  Jurgen, an old pawnbroker magically granted a second youth, embarks through time and space on a series of sexual conquests while ostensibly searching for his missing wife. A tale of the tragedy of human nature.