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Earnest, grave, cool and contemplative.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
- contemplativerelentless
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- C. L. R. James
- First published
- 1963
- Pages
- 267
- Publisher
- Arrow (A Division of Random House Group), Stanley Paul, Pantheon Books
- Editions
- 20
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781784875398
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First sentence
“TUNAPUNA at the beginning of this century was a small town of about 3,000 inhabitants, situated eight miles along the road from Port of Spain, the capital city of Trinidad.”
About C. L. R. James · 1901–1989
Trinidadian historian and journalist who sometimes wrote under the name J. R. Johnson
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