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Spare, cool, earnest and warm.
- sparerichly built
- cooloverwhelming
- earnestironic
- warmbleak
- gravecomic
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About the book
- First published
- 1940
- Pages
- 398
- Publisher
- É Realizações, Gui guan tu shu gu fen you xian gong si, A Touchstone Book
- Editions
- 23
- Language
- Spanish, Chinese, Portuguese, English
- ISBN
- 9788474449822
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First sentence
“This is a book for readers and for those who wish to become readers.”
About Mortimer J. Adler · 1902–2001
Mortimer Jerome Adler was an American philosopher, educator, and popular author.
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