With this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Thomas Mann rose to the front ranks of the great modern novelists, winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1929....

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 to be lord over Egypt....

First published in 1901, when Thomas Mann was only twenty-five, Buddenbrooks is a minutely imagined chronicle of four generations of a North German mercantile family – a work so true to life that it scandalized the author’s former neighbours in his native Lubeck....

Written in the author’s exile from Nazi Germany, Doctor Faustus explores the history which brought about the evil of that time through the story of Adrian Leverkuhn, a composer who sells his soul to the devil in return for the genius he craves....

Discover Thomas Mann\"s comic novel of deception and misplaced confidence - back in print for the first time in over twenty years. 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....

Read Thomas Mann\"s meditation on the power of literary representation and the tyranny of the writer\"s imagination. 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 makes a pilgrimage to Weimar to meet the author who courted her forty years before....

Famous for his novels, Thomas Mann is more accessible through the shorter fictions which span his entire career. The most famous of these stories is one of the earliest....

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Thomas Mann - legendarer deutscher Schriftsteller, Essayist, Meister des epischen Romans, Literatur-Nobelpreistrager 1929. \\\"Der Zauberberg\\\" ist ein Roman, der virtuos die Welt in einer Tuberkulose-Heilstatte in den Schweizer Alpen schildert.......

Royal Highness is the delightfully ironic tale of a small, decadent German duchy and its invigoration by the intellect and values of an independent-minded American woman. Peopled with a range of characters from aristocrat to artisan, Royal Highness provides a microcosmic view of Europe before the Great War....

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....

Discover Mann\"s Nobel Prizewinning semi-autobiographical and sweeping family epic. The Buddenbrook clan is everything you\"d expect of a nineteenth-century German merchant family - wealthy, esteemed, established....

This European masterpiece from the Nobel prizewinner explores the lure and degeneracy of ideas in an introverted community on the eve of World War I. Hans Castorp is \"a perfectly ordinary, if engaging young man\" when he goes to visit his cousin in an exclusive sanatorium in the Swiss Alps....