Thomas Mann

• 1901
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A Major Literary Event: a brilliant new translation of Thomas Mann's first great novel, one of the two for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1929.

Buddenbrooks, first published in Germany in 1900, when Mann was only twenty-...

• 1924
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NOBEL PRIZE WINNER • A monumental work of erudition and irony, sexual tension and intellectual ferment, The Magic Mountain is an enduring classic.With this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Thomas Mann rose to the front ranks of the great modern...

• Jun-1936
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• Jul-1954
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Thomas Mann's bold and disturbing novella, written in 1952, is the feminine counterpart of his masterpiece Death in Venice. Written from the point of view of a woman in what we might now call mid-life crisis, The Black Swan evinces Mann's mastery of ...

• Jun-1957
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• Oct-1959
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From a Nobel Prize for Literature winner and one of the most iconic German writers of the 20th century, Transposed Heads is a beautiful story that explores the complex relationship between the spirit, body, and mind. Inspired by an ancient Hindu lege...

• Oct-1971
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"""John E. Woods is revising our impression of Thomas Mann, masterpiece by masterpiece.""  —The New Yorker

""Doctor Faustus is Mann''s deepest artistic gesture. . . . Finely translated by John E. Woods."" —The New Republi...

• Mar-1972
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• Jun-1975
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"The great virtue of Royal Highness is its relaxed, fairy-tale quality that naturally brings the reader inside that 'Edwardian' calm which preceded everything common to contemporary social life. It is very easy to make connections between t...

• Sep-1983
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• Oct-1990
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Thomas Mann, fascinated with the concept of genius and with the richness of German culture, found in Johann Wolfgang von Goethe the embodiment of the German culture hero. Mann's novelistic biography of Goethe was first published in English in 1940. L...

• Jan-1992
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First published in 1951, The Holy Sinner explores a subject that fascinated Thomas Mann to the end of his life―the origins of evil and evil's connection with magic. Here Mann uses a medieval legend about 'the exceeding mercy of God and the birth of...

• May-1999
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• Sep-2002
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Bashan and I is the moving story of Thomas Mann's relationship with his spirited German short-haired pointer. From their first encounter at a local farm, Mann reveals how he slowly grows to love this energetic, loyal, and intelligent animal. Takin...

• Oct-2003
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When they think of the stories of the great German, Nobel prize-winning -author Thomas Mann, most American readers recall Stories of Three Decades, translated in 1936; however, that edition purposely excluded several early tales of Mann’s which ...

• May-2005
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This remarkable new translation of the Nobel Prize-winner’s great masterpiece is a major literary event.

Thomas Mann regarded his monumental retelling of the biblical story of Joseph as his magnum opus. He conceived of the four pa...

• Feb-2008
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Thomas Mann served as Consultant in Germanic Literature at the Library of Congress for three years, and served as a Fellow in Germanic Literature for ten years after that. He delivered five addresses at the Library, and all are contained in this volu...

• Mar-2010
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"Brilliant…a little masterpiece." -- Chicago Sun-Times

"Beautiful…one of the best short novels he has written." -- New York Times Book Review

"Can rank with the best of Mann's writing." -- The Boston Globe

"Magnificent…one ...

• Dec-2017
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A selection of work taken from his highly acclaimed collection Stories of a Lifetime by one of the greatest writers of the 20th Century.In elegant prose, Mann explores such eternal themes as: individuals forced into the extremes of their existence, i...

• Oct-2018
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Tod Browning’s silent movie horror film, London After Midnight (1927) starring Lon Chaney, Marceline Day, Conrad Nagel, Henry B. Walthall, and Polly Moran, has intrigued silent movie fans for decades. Now considered a lost film, surviving productio...

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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...

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Thomas Mann's Tristan, one of six novellas included in Tristan: Sechs Novellen, was first published in 1903.The story revolves around three characters: Detlev Spinell, an effete writer, his tubercular wife Gabriele, and wealthy but unimaginat...