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Classical in form, earnest, grave and cool.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- David Haward Bain
- First published
- 1999
- Pages
- 797
- Publisher
- Penguin (Non-Classics), Viking Adult, Diane Pub Co
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780140084993
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First sentence
“Nine weeks out of New York and bound for Macao, the leaky and overburdened merchant barque Oscar struggled to round the Cape of Good Hope and was becalmed.”
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