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Word: avernus (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Thomas Mann is only a newspaper name may well take fright at the book s forbidding brink. For Author Mann's latest excursion toward the boundaries of the human spirit is in an uncharted direction, a descent into the past which is no easy tumble into a fanciful Avernus but a painful, foot-by-foot groping for handholds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Great Mann | 6/11/1934 | See Source »

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