Word: lichfield
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...favor with most prominent American authors - heaven knows why! Hergesheimer, Lewis, Gather, Wharton, Fitzgerald, Dos Passes, et cetera - not one of them seems to care about carrying his or her characters through more than a single volume. Except for James Branch Cabell with his elaborate lineage of Lichfield, the pleasant custom of introducing a favorite character from one book into another seems for the present to have fallen into desuetude among us, at least among the more pretentious of our writers. Which makes it all the more pleasant to come across a volume which is not merely a sequel...