- Extinct cities, Ancient History, Ancient Cities and towns, Gro©stadt
A portrayal of fourteen ancient cities at their height.
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Classical in form, cool, earnest and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- warmbleak
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- Author
- L. Sprague De Camp
- First published
- 1972
- Pages
- 510
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Marboro Books, Wilhelm Heyne Verlag
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- German, English
- ISBN
- 9783453004559
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Lyon Sprague de Camp — known as L. Sprague de Camp — was an American writer of science fiction, fantasy, non-fiction and biography. In a career spanning 60 years, he wrote over 100 books, including novels and works of non-fiction, including biographies of other fantasy authors. - Wikipedia
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