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Cool, spare, classical in form and contemplative.
- cooloverwhelming
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
- contemplativerelentless
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Thomas Carlyle
- First published
- 1800
- Pages
- 568
- Publisher
- C. Scribner's Sons, Kessinger Publishing, Houghton, Mifflin
- Editions
- 46
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780543981042
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First sentence
“A PROVERB says, "The house that is a-building looks not as the house that is built."”
About Thomas Carlyle · 1795–1881
Famous Scottish author, scholar, and social critic.
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