# The Beginning and the End

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- Book: [The Beginning and the End](https://www.bookquiver.com/naguib-mahfouz/the-beginning-and-the-end) ([The Beginning and the End.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/naguib-mahfouz/the-beginning-and-the-end.md))
- Authors: [Naguib Mahfouz](https://www.bookquiver.com/naguib-mahfouz)
- Publisher: anchor
- ISBN: 978-03-8526-458-7
- Pages: 416
- Published: 1989-09-20
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

First published in 1956, this is a powerful portrayal of a middle-class Egyptian family confronted by material, moral, and spiritual problems during World War II.