James Stephens

The Crock of Gold Annotated James Stephens

The Crock of Gold is a comic novel written by Irish author James Stephens, first published in 1912. A mixture of philosophy, Irish folklore, and the "battle of the sexes", it consists of six books, Book 1-The Coming of Pan, Book 2-The Philosophers Journey, Book 3-TheTwo Gods, Book 4-The Philosophers Return, Book 5-The Policemen, Book 6-The Thin Woman's Journey, that rotate around a philosopher and his quest to find the most beautiful woman in the world, Cáitilin Ni Murrachu, daughter of a remote mountain farm, and deliver her from the god's Pan and Aengus Óg, while himself going through a catharsis.