The Little Town
work by Mann
Also known as: “Die kleine Stadt”
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"The Little Town" (Die kleine Stadt) is a lighter work by German novelist Heinrich Mann, published in 1909. It is distinct from the novella "Tristan" by his brother, Thomas Mann, which was published in 1903. Heinrich Mann's early novels often depicted the decadence of high society and later focused on the greed for power and wealth in Kaiser Wilhelm II's Germany. "The Little Town" is a less critical work compared to his other writings that attacked the authoritarian social structure of German society.123
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