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Classical in form, earnest, cool and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- cooloverwhelming
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
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About the book
- Author
- Simon Winchester
- First published
- 1988
- Pages
- 240
- Publisher
- Harper Perennial, Prentice Hall Trade, Perennial
- Editions
- 10
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780060750442
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“This story starts a very long way from Korea - indeed, very nearly halfway across the world from Hendrick Hamel's 'dangerous and difficult Kingdom' on a gloomy, rainswept, industrial street in Newcastle upon Tyne.”
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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