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Mr. Button was seated on a sea-chest with a fiddle under his left ear. He was playing the "Shan van vaught," and accompanying the tune, punctuating it, with blows of his left heel on the fo'cs'le deck.
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Classical in form, contemplative, earnest and intimate.
- classical in formformally daring
- contemplativerelentless
- earnestironic
- intimateepic
- effortlessdemanding
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About the book
- First published
- 1981
- Pages
- 194
- Publisher
- Hutchinson, Readers Library Pub. Co., Kessinger Publishing
- Editions
- 83
- Language
- Russian, English, Italian
- ISBN
- 9781505291117
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