Smirt

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Smirt
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Author James Branch Cabell
Country United States
Language English
SeriesThe Nightmare Has Triplets
Genre Satire
Publisher Robert M. McBride
Publication date
1934
Media typePrint (Hardback)
Pages309
ISBN 1-59224-273-1 (reprint)
Followed bySmith: A Sylvan Interlude 

Smirt: An Urbane Nightmare is a 1934 satirical romance novel by American writer James Branch Cabell, the opening volume in his trilogy The Nightmare Has Triplets. The two later romances of this trilogy are Smith and Smire.

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