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Classical in form, cool, earnest and plot-driven.
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- William Bernstein
- First published
- 2004
- Pages
- 350
- Publisher
- McGraw-Hill, 日本経済新聞社, 日本経済新聞出版社
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- Japanese, English
- ISBN
- 9780071421928
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First sentence
“IT'S ALL TOO TEMPTING TO LAMENT the state of the world, particularly when you focus on the melodramas of mankind-violent conflicts, large-scale malfeasance and failure, and the latest installments in the age-old racial and religious hatreds that permeate the human story.”
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