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Further books patterned after this novel have been called '' Bildungsromane '' ("novels of formation"), despite the fact that Wilhelm's "''Bildung''" is ironized by the narrator at many points.See: Sammons, Jeffrey L. "The Mystery of the Missing Bildungsroman; or, What Happened to Wilhelm Meister's Legacy?" Genre 14 (1981): 229-46.

'' Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre '' (" Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years "), the sequel, was Goethe's fourth and last novel. Its first edition appeared in 1828 , and substantially reworked second edition in 1829 .


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The opera '' Mignon '' by Ambroise Thomas is based on ''Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship''.


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