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Quotation from Death in Venice by Thomas Mann

“And on the same day a respectfully shocked world received the news of his death.”

Thomas Mann (spoken by Narrator)

Death in Venice, Chapter V, trans. Kenneth Burke (1925)

Portrait of Thomas Mann

The final sentence of the novella.

Citation: "And on the same day a respectfully shocked world received the news of his death." — Thomas Mann, Death in Venice, Chapter V, trans. Kenneth Burke (1925). (id mann-death-in-venice-q7)

Portrait: Thomas Mann 1929, Nobel Foundation, Public domain.

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