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Author
Thomas Mann
1875–1955
Thomas Mann was born in Lübeck in 1875, into a merchant family, and died in Zurich in 1955. That middle-class childhood gave him the subject of his first great novel, Buddenbrooks, published in 1901: four generations of a prosperous family who slowly lose their fortune and their confidence in themselves.
Death in Venice, from 1912, is a short novel about a famous writer who travels to Venice and becomes captivated by beauty. The Magic Mountain, from 1924, takes place in a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps, where a young man who meant to stay three weeks remains for seven years, surrounded by conversations about time, politics and the meaning of life.
He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929. A few years later he left Germany because of his opposition to Nazism and lived in the United States, whose citizenship he went on to adopt.
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BuddenbrooksThomas Mann
BuddenbrooksThomas Mann
Buddenbrooks
Thomas Mann
A family saga following four generations of merchants in a Hanseatic town in northern Germany across the nineteenth century. Mann paints their dinners, deals, marriages and ambitions with gentle irony and deep sympathy, as a proud household tries to hold its standing while the world shifts around it. A broad, unhurried novel to live inside for weeks.
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Death in VeniceThomas Mann
Death in VeniceThomas Mann
Death in Venice
Thomas Mann
An acclaimed German writer, worn down by a life of rigid discipline, travels to Venice for rest and instead finds himself captivated by the beauty of a Polish boy staying at his hotel. Mann turns that fascination into a haunting reflection on art, desire and the limits of self-control. It reads like a slow walk through a lovely city where something in the air is quietly wrong.
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The Magic MountainThomas Mann
The Magic MountainThomas Mann
The Magic Mountain
Thomas Mann
Young engineer Hans Castorp travels to an Alpine sanatorium for a short visit and finds himself drawn into a strange, enclosed world where time loosens its grip. Surrounded by vivid characters who argue about politics, philosophy, love and mortality, he becomes a witness to a Europe on the brink of war. A slow, immersive novel of ideas that rewards readers willing to linger in its thin mountain air.
