The Cream of the Jest - James Branch Cabell - Bog

Felix Kennaston is known around the town of Lichfield as a dreamer, a strange man with literary ambitions and little to show for them. While finishing a story, he discovers a strange talisman. Later that night, a dream inspires him to change his novel's ending, guaranteeing its unlikely success. The Cream of the Jest is a novel by James Branch Cabell.