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Classical in form, earnest, grave and plot-driven.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- intimateepic
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- Author
- Charles Kingsley
- First published
- 1866
- Pages
- 424
- Publisher
- Collins, Dent, Macmillan
- Editions
- 36
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780742636262
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“IN Kesteven of Lincolnshire, between the forest and the fen, lies the good market-town of Bourne, the birthplace, according to all tradition, of two great Englishmen; of Cecil Lord Burleigh, justly remembered throughout all time, and of Hereward the Wake, not unjustly, perhaps, long forgotten.”
Church of England priest, novelist, professor, historian (<a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Kingsley>more</a>).
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