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Classical in form, cool, earnest and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
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About the book
- First published
- 1992
- Pages
- 447
- Publisher
- Ballantine Books
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780345910868
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First sentence
“BY THE TIME written history began, some fifty centuries ago, mankind had learned much more than our primitive ancestors knew.”
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