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Classical in form, spare, cool and plot-driven.
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
- cooloverwhelming
- character-ledplot-driven
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton
- First published
- 1929
- Pages
- 260
- Publisher
- Assembled Stories, Dodd, Mead & Co., House of Stratus
- Editions
- 27
- Language
- French, Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9781417904792
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“The inn called the Rising Sun had an exterior rather suggesting the title of the Setting Sun.”
About Gilbert Keith Chesterton · 1874–1936
**Gilbert Keith Chesterton** was an English writer, lay theologian, poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, orator, literary and art critic, biographer, and Christian apologist.
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