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Earnest, grave, bleak and classical in form.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- warmbleak
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Henri Barbusse
- First published
- 1916
- Pages
- 360
- Publisher
- Éditions J'ai Lu, Flammarion, Dent
- Editions
- 25
- Language
- French, English, German
- ISBN
- 9781406836677
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First sentence
“MONT BLANC, the Dent du Midi, and the Aiguille Verte look across at the bloodless faces that show above the blankets along the gallery of the sanatorium.”
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