- Love stories, World War, 1914-1918, Fiction, World war, 1914-1918, fiction
Set before and during the great war, Birdsong captures the drama of that era on both a national and a personal scale.Set before and during the great war, Birdsong captures the drama of that era on both a national and a personal scale.
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and bleak.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
- cooloverwhelming
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About the book
- Author
- Sebastian Faulks
- First published
- 1993
- Pages
- 500
- Publisher
- Goldmann, Audiobooks, Chivers Audio Books
- Editions
- 46
- Language
- tur, German, French, English
- ISBN
- 9780679776819
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