The Poet Dying: Heinrich Heine's Last Years in Paris
- ISBN-10
- 0374235384
- ISBN-13
- 9780374235383
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 277
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1995
- Publisher
- Farrar Straus & Giroux
- Author
- Ernst Pawel
Description
Portraying a poet at the height of his creativity, a biography of Heinrich Heine, a popular German poet of the 1800s who revolutionized the language, shares the work of his last eight years when he was confined to his bed with a mysterious ailment.
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