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Character
Cool, warm, contemplative and prestige.
- cooloverwhelming
- warmbleak
- contemplativerelentless
- unpretentiousprestige
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- First published
- 1959
- Pages
- 356
- Publisher
- Lulu.com, lulu.com, Doubleday & Company Inc.
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780486427027
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First sentence
“I HAVE spent a long time wondering, my dear Alfonso, which of two things was the more difficult for me: either to refuse what you have asked me so often and so insistently, or to do it.”
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