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"[A] great novelist, one of the last century's finest."--The Independent
"An excellent introduction to a masterful writer."--Publishers Weekly
Robert Walser was born in Switzerland in 1878. He wrote nine novels and hundreds of stories before being hospitalized for mental illness in 1933. He died in 1956.
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