World Ends, a (1952) [Short Story]
by Wolfgang Hildesheimer
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Summary
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The Marchessa Montetristo's last evening party takes place on the artificial island San Amerigo.
As far as we can tell, this was first published in the collection Lieblose Legenden in 1952 and as a radio opera with music by Hans Werner Henze in 1953.
Original title: Das Ende einer Welt
Original languages:
German
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Genre: Fiction→ General Fiction
This work is a subwork of the following works : Great German Short Stories (1960) [Anthology] Authors: Franz Kafka
, Thomas Mann
, Heinrich Böll
, Rainer Maria Rilke
, Gottfried Keller
, Gottfried Benn
, Hugo von Hofmannsthal
, Heinrich von Kleist
, Ilse Aichinger
, Georg Heym
, Wolfgang Hildesheimer
, Heinz Huber
, Georg Büchner
, Adalbert Stifter
, Robert Walser
, Hans Erich Nossack
, Gerd Gaiser
Great Modern European Short Stories (1967) [Anthology] Authors: Franz Kafka
, James Joyce
, D. H. Lawrence
, Anton Chekhov
, Thomas Mann
, Luigi Pirandello
, Albert Camus
, Jean-Paul Sartre
, Heinrich Böll
, Isaac Bashevis Singer
, Joseph Conrad
, W. Somerset Maugham
, Mary Lavin
, Frank O'Connor
, Isak Dinesen
, Karel Capek
, Katherine Mansfield
, Isaac Babel
, Alan Sillitoe
, Alberto Moravia
, Wolfgang Hildesheimer
, Jakov Lind
, Heinz Huber
, Tommaso Landolfi
, Yuri Kazakov
Anti-Story: an anthology of experimental fiction (1971) [Anthology] Authors: Heinrich Böll
, Eugenio Montale
, Norman Mailer
, Thomas M. Disch
, Donald Barthelme
, Joyce Carol Oates
, Julio Cortázar
, Jorge Luis Borges
, John Barth
, Oscar Lewis
, Theodore Roethke
, Eugène Ionesco
, Wolfgang Hildesheimer
, Tommaso Landolfi
, Keith Fort
, Ann Quin
, William H. Gass
, Curtis Zahn
, Nigel Dennis
, Nathalie Sarraute
, Alain Robbe-Grillet
, Michel Butor
, Michael Goldstein
, Mitchell Sisskind
, Reinhard Lettau
, Russell Edson
, Enrique Anderson Imbert
, Robert Coover
Collected Stories of Wolfgang Hildesheimer, the (1987) [Collection] Author: Wolfgang Hildesheimer
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