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* [[Lord Dunsany]], who was born in the 19th century, but lived well into 1950s was famous for his use of archaic language to give an otherworldly feel to his stories. Unlike most of the people who sought to imitate him, he did it well.
** His fellow resident of the Brittanic Isle, a Mr. [[Neil Gaiman]], penned a volume of fiction - or "novel", as the modern youthful persons are calling these paper-made knowledge deposits - entitled ''Stardust'' in a similarly old-timey style of phrase-ology.
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** Yet she rises, at times, to affect the severer elegance of her [[Jane Austen|great model.]]
* The ''Khaavren Romances'' of [[Dragaera]] purport to represent novels of a historical nature from the country in which they occur, which title is used to describe the full series, and indeed are meant in some portion as a [[Homage|work to render appreciation to another,]] that most well-known of providers of examples of this characteristic, [[Alexandre Dumas (Creator)|Alexandre Dumas]].
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