| The Author of Jurgen | [3] | |
| I | A Note on Alcoves | [25] |
| II | The Way of Wizardry | [49] |
| III | Minions of the Moon | [79] |
| IV | The Thin Queen of Elfhame | [123] |
| V | Celestial Architecture | [139] |
| VI | Romantics About Them | [171] |
| VII | Diversions of the Anchorite | [193] |
| VIII | The Delta of Radegonde | [225] |
| IX | A Theme With Variations | [239] |
| X | Flaws in the Spur | [267] |
| The Author of The Eagle's Shadow | [285] |
THE AUTHOR OF JURGEN
"As to the book of the Laws composed by him, what good have they done us? And yet he ought (as Lycurgus did the Lacedæmonians, and as Solon did the Athenians, and Zaleucus the Thurians), if they were excellent, to have persuaded some to adopt them. How, then, can we consider Plato's conduct anything but ridiculous?—since he appears to have written his laws, not for men who have any real existence, but rather for a set of persons invented by him."
The Author of Jurgen
§ 1
"But this is grossly unfair!" John Charteris complained. "All these long years you have been promising to write a book about me. And now, it seems, I am to remain forever a minor character."
"Well—!" I admitted.
"And why, pray?"
"Well—!" I explained: and I went on, "I mean, of course, that is, after I had given the matter real consideration—" Then I summed it all up even more completely. "But, come now, Charteris! you, as a writer yourself, know how these submitted notions by and by come back from the cellar of what we—well, as one might say, fraudulently—term the subconscious; and come back either transmuted into something quite different or else marked Not Available for Our Present Needs."
He shook his head. "In the fidgeting face of such tergiversation I can but observe that, really, of all things! For, when one considers the persons whom you have elected to give a whole book to, civility must seek refuge in aposiopesis. Me, look you, me, you have passed over in favor of a moonstruck Kennaston and of that fat little Woods widow!"