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Classical in form, earnest, contemporary and cool.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
- cooloverwhelming
- gravecomic
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About the book
- Author
- Simon Winchester
- First published
- 1996
- Pages
- 410
- Publisher
- H. Holt, Make Beiluo wen hua, Holt Paperbacks
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English, Chinese
- ISBN
- 9780805038880
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“"Welcome! spoke the computer, with a tinny amiability that took the chill off the early morning.”
About Simon Winchester · 1944
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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