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Chivalry
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Title: Chivalry
Author: James Branch Cabell
Release Date: March 28, 2004 [eBook #11752] [Date last updated: September 30, 2005]
Language: English
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CHIVALRY
JAMES BRANCH CABELL
1921
TO ANNE BRANCH CABELL
"AINSI A VOUS, MADAME, A MA TRÈS HAULTE ET TRÈS NOBLE DAME, A QUI J'AYME A DEVOIR ATTACHEMENT ET OBÉISSANCE, J'ENVOYE CE LIVRET."
Introduction
Few of the more astute critics who have appraised the work of James Branch Cabell have failed to call attention to that extraordinary cohesion which makes his very latest novel a further flowering of the seed of his very earliest literary work. Especially among his later books does the scheme of each seem to dovetail into the scheme of the other and the whole of his writing take on the character of an uninterrupted discourse. To this phenomenon, which is at once a fact and an illusion of continuity, Mr. Cabell himself has consciously contributed, not only by a subtly elaborate use of conjunctions, by repetition, and by reintroducing characters from his other books, but by actually setting his expertness in genealogy