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At the beginning of the 20th century, Richmond native James Branch Cabell was a little known author, even though he had already published eleven books. So nobody really expected his twelfth book -- "Jurgen" – to cause much of a splash. At least until it caught the eye of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice.

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