- Biography, Biography & Autobiography, Nonfiction, Great britain, biography
In The Fatal Englishman, his first work of nonfiction, Sebastian Faulks explores the lives of three remarkable men.
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Grave, earnest, classical in form and prestige.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- warmbleak
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About the book
- Author
- Sebastian Faulks
- First published
- 1996
- Pages
- 320
- Publisher
- Penguin Random House, Hutchinson, Vintage
- Editions
- 12
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781407052700
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First sentence
“One day in the spring of 1921 a beautiful young Englishman set off for Paris to become the greatest painter the world had ever seen.”
About Sebastian Faulks · 1953
British journalist and novelist
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