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Classical in form, earnest, grave and epic.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Wilbur Smith
- First published
- 1993
- Pages
- 550
- Publisher
- Bookcassette, Max Hueber Verlag, Chivers Press
- Editions
- 43
- Language
- French, English
- ISBN
- 9781578150212
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“THE RIVER lay heavily upon the desert, bright as a spill of molten metal from a furnace.”
Wilbur Addison Smith was a Northern Rhodesian-born British-South African novelist specializing in historical fiction about international involvement in Southern Africa across four centuries.
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