About “Der Untertan”

Der Untertan is a 1918 novel by German author Heinrich Mann, one of his best known works. Its title character, Diederich Hessling, a dedicated "Untertan" (a person subservient to a monarch or prince), is portrayed as an immoral man meant to serve as an allegory of both the reign of Kaiser Wilhelm II and German society of his time. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)

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1984 · ISBN 0140181377
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Man of straw 1984 0140181377 Buy on Amazon
Man of straw 1972 0722158130 Buy on Amazon

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How many pages is Der Untertan?

Der Untertan by Heinrich Mann has 295 pages.

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