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Thomas Mann's last great novel, first published in 1947 and now newly rendered into English by acclaimed translator John E. Woods, is a modern reworking of the Faust legend, in which Germany sells its soul to the Devil. Mann's protagonist, the composer Adrian Leverkühn, is the flower of German...

Thomas Manns vierbändiger Josephsroman ist ein Gipfelwerk des 20. Jahrhunderts. Zwischen 1933 und 1943 erschienen, stand diese große biblische...

Thomas Mann's vivid, dramatic, and thought-provoking The Magic Mountain is firmly established as one of the classic epic novels of the twentieth century.

The masterful novella by Nobel laureate, Thomas Mann....

Der Schriftsteller Tonio Kröger ist zwischen der Verachtung für die Banalität des bürgerlichen Lebens und der Sehnsucht nach dem gewöhnlichen menschlichen Glück hin- und hergerissen. Später findet er in der russischen Künstlerin Lisaweta Iwanowna eine Freundin und Vertraute.

Thomas Mann bezeichnete "Tonio Kröger" als seinen "Werther" und sein "Lieblingskind": Tonio Kröger, Schriftsteller...

Lit Hub: Most Anticipated Books of 2023 A towering figure in the pantheon of twentieth-century literature, Thomas Mann has often been perceived as a dry and forbidding writer—"the starched collar," as Bertolt Brecht once called him. But in fact, his fiction is lively, humane, sometimes...

Ein Sommer in Italien. Eine scheinbar harmlose Zaubershow. Ein Abend, der eskaliert. Ein deutscher Urlaubsort gerät unter den Einfluss des unheimlichen Magiers Cipolla.

Ein kurzer Besuch in einem Davoser Sanatorium wird für den jungen Ingenieur Hans Castorp zu einem siebenjährigen Aufenthalt, der Kurort wird zur Bühne...

L'écrivain renommé Gustav von Aschenbach, en proie à une crise créative, entreprend un voyage pour se ressourcer. Dès son arrivée, il est captivé par la beauté exceptionnelle d'un jeune adolescent polonais.

In this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Mann uses a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps, a community devoted exclusively to sickness, as a microcosm for Europe, which in the years before 1914 was already exhibiting the first symptoms of its own terminal irrationality....

Buddenbrooks was first published in Germany in 1901, when Mann was only twenty-six. It has become a classic of modern literature and was cited as the overarching reason for Mann being awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature....

In Thomas Mann's novella Death in Venice, a distinguished writer's holiday from the burdens of his work turns out very differently from what he expected. By means of the story, Mann explores the relationships between disciplined intellect and ungoverned passion....

Eigentlich sollte es ein angenehmer Familienurlaub im italienischen Touristenort Torre di Venere werden.

Thomas Mann’s classic tale of obsession and beauty is one of literature’s most famous works.

Handlungsort bildet ein Kuratorium mit Schwerpunkt Atem- und Nervenerkrankungen, deren mehr oder weniger freiwillige Patienten alle ihre ganz eigene Geschichte haben.

Published over a ten-year period between the years 1933 and 1943 while the writer was in exile, Thomas Mann’s Joseph and his Brothers is an epic four-part novel that works as a retelling of chapters twenty-one to thirty of the Book of Genesis. Described as a “Mythological novel”, It took...

The Ultimate Classics Collection: Volume One is a continent-hopping, century-spanning collection of 10 of the greatest classic novels ever written, from British, Irish, American, and German authors.

In this third volume of Thomas Mann’s monumental retelling of the biblical story, Joseph in Egypt follows Joseph after he is sold by his jealous brothers to Ishmaelite traders. They bring him to Egypt, where he’s eventually purchased by Potiphar. Joseph's intelligence, charisma, and...

In der Stilistik Thomas Manns liegt dieses markant-prägnant-charmante Element, das einen sofort in seinen Bann zieht.