num_pages: 740
description: World's End is the first novel in Upton Sinclair's Lanny Budd series. First published in 1940, the story covers the period from 1913 to 1919. This is the beginning of a monumental 7,340 page novel, the story of Lanny Budd, a young American, beginning in Europe in 1913. It is also an intimate record of a great world which fell victim to its own civilization. A new world was about to be born.
language: English
title: World's End
titlecomplete: World's End
characters: Lanny Budd
genres: Classics, American, Historical, World War I, War, Historical Fiction, Literature, 20th Century, Fiction, Politics
ratings_count: 1182
series: The Lanny Budd Novels
publisher: Viking Pr