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The Last World

Christoph Ransmayr

First published 1990
Publisher Grove Weidenfeld
Format Hardcover
Type Novel
Cover art Fred Marcellino
Pages 246
Price $18.95
ISBN 080211167X

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  • 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.

Year Reviewer Publication
1990 Scott Winnett Locus, #358 November 1990
1990 Paul Kincaid Vector 158

Searching by ISBN: 080211167X

Title Year Publisher Format Type Catalog ID Cover Artist Pages
The Last World Cover 1990 Chatto & Windus Hardcover Novel 202
The Last World 1991 Paladin Trade Paperback Novel Howard Bartrop 202
The Last World Cover 1996 Grove Press Trade Paperback Novel Hieronymus Bosch 246