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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.

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...

Published on the eve of World War I, a decade after Buddenbrooks had established Thomas Mann as a literary celebrity, Death in Venice tells the story of Gustav von Aschenbach, a successful but aging writer who follows his wanderlust to Venice in search of spiritual fulfillment that instead leads to his erotic doom.

Der Zauberberg ist ein 1924 erschienener Roman des deutschen Schriftstellers Thomas Mann. Das Werk ist seitdem in vielen hohen Auflagen und zahlreichen Übersetzungen erschienen. Im Roman trifft der junge angehende Ingenieur Hans Castorp während seines Aufenthalts in der Zeit vor 1914 in der abgeschlossenen Welt eines Sanatoriums im Hochgebirge auf weltentrückte Figuren, die ihn mit Politik, Philosophie, aber auch Liebe, Krankheit und Tod konfrontieren.

Published over a ten-year period between 1933 and 1943, 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 Mann over sixteen years to write the...

Discover Thomas Mann's comic novel of deception and misplaced confidence. Waiter by day, man about Paris by night; the young and good looking Felix Krull has created for himself a personality to charm and deceive the world of wealth. When the Marquis de Venosta makes him a proposal that he can't...

Thomas Mann regarded his monumental retelling of the biblical story of Joseph as his magnum opus. He conceived of the four parts-The Stories of Jacob, Young Joseph, Joseph in Egypt, and Joseph the Provider-as a unified narrative, a "mythological novel" of Joseph's fall into slavery and his rise...

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...

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 story of four generations of a wealthy bourgeois family in northern Germany facing the advent of modernity; in an uncertain new world, the family’s bonds and traditions begin to disintegrate. As Mann charts the Buddenbrooks’ decline from prosperity to bankruptcy, from moral and psychic soundness to sickly piety, artistic decadence, and madness, he ushers the listener into a world of stunning vitality, pieced together from births and funerals, weddings and divorces, recipes, gossip, and earthy humor.

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

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. Part surreal comedy, part grim tragedy, Mann's story depicts a decaying European society on the eve of the First World War.

Mit seinem monumentalen Romanzyklus Joseph und seine Brüder schuf Thomas Mann eines der bedeutendsten Werke der deutschsprachigen Literatur des 20. Jahrhunderts. In Die Geschichten Jaakobs, dem ersten Teil der Tetralogie, greift der Nobelpreisträger die biblischen Überlieferungen des Alten Testaments auf und gestaltet sie zu einem farbenreichen Epos über Menschen, Schicksal, Glauben und die Ursprünge einer Kultur. Im Mittelpunkt steht Jaakob, der Enkel Abrahams und Sohn Isaaks. Thomas Mann erzählt von dessen Familiengeschichte, von Rivalitäten und Versöhnungen, von Liebe, Betrug...

Mario und der Zauberer – Ein tragisches Reiseerlebnis ist eine Novelle von Thomas Mann, die 1930 zunächst in Velhagen und Klasings Monatsheften publiziert wurde und anschließend im S. Fischer Verlag erschien. In psychologischem Realismus schildert Mann darin die Wirkungen eines im faschistischen Italien hereinbrechenden Dämons anhand der Figur des Showhypnotiseurs Cavaliere Cipolla.

This anthology features a wide array of thought-provoking, genre-defining works from the 1900s, showcasing the range of modern storytelling—from existential musings to dark humour and intricate social commentary. These are the stories that have shaped modern literature, offering timeless insights into human nature and society. This collection brings together the finest modernist narratives, political reflections, and social commentaries that have shaped literature as we know it.

"La montagna incantata è un fedele, complesso, esauriente ritratto della civiltà occidentale dei primi decenni del Novecento e, nella sua incantata fusione di prosa e poesia, di vastità scientifica e di arte raffinata, è il libro, forse, più grandioso che sia stato scritto nella prima metà del secolo."

It was The Magic Mountain (Der Zauberberg) that confirmed Thomas Mann as a Nobel prizewinner for literature and rightly so, for it is undoubtedly one of the great novels of the 20th century. Its unusual story - it opens with a young man visiting a friend in a tuberculosis sanatorium in the Swiss...

In Die Hungernden schildert Thomas Mann das Leben junger Menschen, die zwischen künstlerischem Anspruch und materieller Not ihren Platz suchen. Getrieben von Idealen, aber konfrontiert mit Entbehrung und Orientierungslosigkeit, geraten sie in einen Spannungsraum zwischen Sehnsucht und Realität.

In Ein Glück erzählt Thomas Mann von einem unscheinbaren Moment, der für den Protagonisten zu einem seltenen Gefühl von Zufriedenheit und innerem Gleichgewicht wird. Zwischen Alltäglichkeit und feiner Wahrnehmung entfaltet sich eine leise Geschichte über das Glück im Kleinen – flüchtig, persönlich und von stiller Intensität.

In Tonio Kröger erzählt Thomas Mann von einem jungen Schriftsteller zwischen zwei Welten: der bürgerlich-nordischen Herkunft und der leidenschaftlich-künstlerischen Natur. Tonio fühlt sich weder ganz dem Leben noch ganz der Kunst zugehörig und bleibt ein Suchender. Seine Reise wird zu einer leisen, melancholischen Selbstbefragung über Identität, Einsamkeit und die Sehnsucht nach Zugehörigkeit.