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Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa - No nineteenth-century...
No nineteenth-century writer could have written this nineteenth-century tale; but few twentieth-century writers could have handled its simplicities in the way this one does. (Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa)

No nineteenth-century writer could have written this nineteenth-century tale; but few twentieth-century writers could have handled its simplicities in the way this one does.

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

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