The Last World

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Overview:

Title: The Last World
Author: Christoph Ransmayr
Year: 1990
ISBN-10: 080211167X
Publisher: Grove Weidenfeld
Price: $18.95
Pages: 246
Binding: Hardcover
Type: Novel
Title Reference: The Last World
Notes:
- The title page reads: "The Last World / a novel with an Ovidian repertory / Translated from the German by John E. Woods"
- On the copyright page: "Printed on acid-free paper. Designed by Irving Perkins Associates. Chapter-number illustrations by Anita Albus. First English Language Edition 1990."
- The "Ovidian repertory" (beginning on p. 221) is a cast of characters juxtaposing characters from the novel against excerpts from Ovid's Metamorphoses (trans. Rolfe Humphries) and Epistulae ex Ponto.