Word: unmodern
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...young man in his twenties he made his appearance with a bulky novel of two volumes, quite an unmodern thing to do early in this century when everybody was proud of being in haste and having no time for long tales, only for the "short" story. But he made his public sit down and read what he had to say. "Buddenbrooks, Decline of a Family." Knopf, New York, was the title of the book. He covered the whole nineteenth century with the history of a merchant family in an old Hanseatic City, spoke "partly in a sombre, partly...