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Description edit
“W. G. Sebald exemplified the best kind of cosmopolitan literary intelligence–humane, digressive, deeply erudite, unassuming and tinged with melancholy. . . . In <Campo Santo> Sebald reveals his distinctive tone, as his winding sentences gradually mingle together curiosity and plangency,... read more
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First Sentence edit
In September last year, during a two-week holiday on the island of Corsica, I took a blue bus one day down the west coast to Ajaccio to spend a little time looking around the town, of which I knew nothing except that it was the birthplace of the Emperor Napoleon.
Authors & Contributors edit
- W. G. Sebald (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Random House Inc
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2005
ISBN: 1400062292
Page Count: 240
Publisher: Random House Inc
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2005
ISBN: 1400062292
Page Count: 240
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 834.914
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