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Classical in form, warm, cool and spare.
- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
- cooloverwhelming
- sparerichly built
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- Bill Bryson
- First published
- 1656
- Pages
- 270
- Publisher
- Penguin Books, Limited, Penguin, Harper Perennial
- Editions
- 29
- Language
- Chinese, English
- ISBN
- 9780141037462
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First sentence
“MORE THAN 300 MILLION PEOPLE IN the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seems, try to.”
About Bill Bryson · 1951
"William McGuire "Bill" Bryson is a best-selling Anglo-American author of humorous books on travel, as well as books on the English language and science." - Wikipedia
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