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Classical in form, cool, earnest and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- warmbleak
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About the book
- Author
- Gary Alan Fine
- First published
- 1983
- Pages
- 290
- Publisher
- Books on Demand, University of Chicago Press, University Of Chicago Press
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780226249438
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First sentence
“Tolstoy once wrote: "If we were always to judge from reality, games would be nonsense.”
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