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Contemplative, epic, earnest and prestige.
- contemplativerelentless
- intimateepic
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
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- Author
- Rebecca West
- First published
- 1942
- Pages
- 1181
- Publisher
- Papermac, Penguin, Penguin USA, Inc.
- Editions
- 10
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781101035191
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Cecily Isabel Fairfield (21 December 1892 – 15 March 1983), known as Rebecca West, or Dame Rebecca West, was a British author, journalist, literary critic and travel writer. An author who wrote in many genres, West reviewed books for *The Times,* the *New York Herald Tribune, The Sunday Telegraph* and *The New Republic,* and she was a correspondent for *The Bookman.* Her major works include *Black Lamb and Grey Falcon* (1941), on the history and culture of Yugoslavia; *A Train of Powder* (1955), her coverage of the Nuremberg trials, published originally in *The New Yorker; The Meaning of Treason* (first published as a magazine article in 1945 and then expanded to the book in 1947), later *Th
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