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Classical in form, earnest, grave and resolved.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
- cooloverwhelming
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- Author
- Simon Winchester
- First published
- 2001
- Pages
- 352
- Publisher
- Penguin Group UK, Wheeler Publishing, Penguin Books Ltd
- Editions
- 14
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780140280395
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“The last day of August 1819, a Tuesday, dawned gray, showery, and refreshingly cool in London, promising a welcome end to a weeklong spell of close and muggy weather that seemed to have put all the capital's citizens in a nettlesome, liverish mood.”
Author and journalist <a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Winchester>Simon Winchester</a> was born in England but favours the United States.
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