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Contemplative, richly built, grave and bleak.
- contemplativerelentless
- sparerichly built
- gravecomic
- warmbleak
- resolvedopen-ended
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About the book
- Author
- Mervyn Peake
- First published
- 1995
- Pages
- 1172
- Publisher
- Overlook TP, Overlook Press
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780879516284
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