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Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann
Category: Classics
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-five, has become a classic of modem literature -- the story o ...Show more
Death In Venice And Other Stories by Thomas Mann
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics
Death in Venice is a story of obsession. Gustave von Aschenbach is a successful but ageing writer who travels to Venice for a holiday. One day, he notices an exceptionally beautiful young boy who is staying with his family in the same hotel. Soon Aschenbach’s days begin to revolve around seeing this boy ...Show more
Death in Venice and Other Stories (Vintage Loves Film Classic) by Thomas Mann
Category: Classics
Gustav von Aschenbach, a successful ageing writer, travels to Venice for a holiday. One day, Aschenbach notices an exceptionally beautiful young boy. Soon his days begin to revolve around seeing this boy and he is too distracted to pay attention to the ominous rumours that have begun to circulate about ...Show more
Doctor Faustus by Thomas Mann
Category: Classics
Adrian Leverkühn is a young man destined for success. He is a composer - creative and brilliant, but he will stop at nothing to achieve greatness. Intentionally contracting syphilis in order to deepen his creative potential through madness, Adrian makes his pact with nature. Mann's interpretation of the ...Show more
IT'S EVEN WORSE THAN IT LOOKS - How the by MANN THOMAS ORNSTEIN NORMAN
Category: Non-Fiction
Joseph and His Brothers by Thomas Mann
Category: Classics
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, The 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 t ...Show more
Lotte in Weimar by Thomas Mann
Category: Fiction
Thomas Mann's meditation on the power of literary representation and the tyranny of the writer's imagination, published in Vintage Classics for the first time. Mann's novel, written some 150 years after Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther, follows Lotte Kestner, Goethe's real-life heroine, as she make ...Show more
Mario and the Magician by Thomas Mann
Category: Classics
Mann s short stories explore his abiding interest in the split nature of humanity and the discordance of the world it inhabits. In A Man and his Dog , domestic tempests are symbols of the muddle of humanity. In The Black Swan , the demands of intellect clash with physical desires. And in Mario and the M ...Show more
One Nation after Trump - A Guide for the Perplexed, the Disillusioned, the Desperate, and the Not-Yet Deported by E. J. Dionne Jr.; Norman J. Ornstein; Thomas E. Mann
Category: Politics
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND WASHINGTON POST BESTSELLERA call to action from three of Washington's premier political scholar-journalists, One Nation After Trump offers the definitive work on the threat posed by the Trump presidency and how to counter it. American democracy was never supposed to give ...Show more
THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN by MANN THOMAS (TRAN) WOODS JOHN E
Category: Classics
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. The Magic Mountain is a monumental work of e ...Show more