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Classical in form, effortless, resolved and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- effortlessdemanding
- resolvedopen-ended
- gravecomic
- warmbleak
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About the book
- Author
- Anthony Hope
- First published
- 1896
- Pages
- 336
- Publisher
- Longmans, Green and Co., Kessinger Publishing, Stacey
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780848813703
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First sentence
“"STEPHEN! Stephen! Stephen!" The impatient cry was heard through all the narrow gloomy street, where the old richly-carved house-fronts bowed to meet one another and left for the eye's comfort only a bare glimpse of blue.”
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