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Classical in form, intimate, spare and effortless.
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- sparerichly built
- effortlessdemanding
- cooloverwhelming
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- Author
- Raymond Briggs
- First published
- 1919
- Pages
- 103
- Publisher
- JONATHAN CAPE, Red Fox
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780224060394
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Raymond Briggs was born in Wimbledon, Surrey, to parents Ernest Redvers Briggs (1900–1971), a milkman, and Ethel Bowyer (1895–1971), a former lady's maid-turned-housewife, who married in 1930. His other known relatives are: an adoptive paternal grandmother (his father's step-mother), his maternal grandparents, and two maternal uncles who died during childhood. He attended Rutlish School, at that time a grammar school, pursued cartooning from an early age and, despite his father's attempts to discourage him from this unprofitable pursuit, attended the Wimbledon School of Art from 1949 to 1953 to study painting, and Central School of Art to study typography. From 1953 to 1955, he was a Nationa
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