Book
Buddenbrooks : the decline of a family / Thomas Mann ; translated from the German by John E. Woods.
Record details
- ISBN: 0679419942 :
- ISBN: 9780679419945
- Physical Description: 648 p. ; 24 cm.
- Edition: 1st American ed.
- Publisher: New York : Knopf, 1993.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Translation of: Buddenbrooks. Originally published: 1924. |
| Summary, etc.: | 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 modern literature - the story of four generations of a wealthy bourgeois family in northern Germany. With consummate skill, Mann draws a rounded picture of middle-class life: births and christenings; marriages, divorces, and deaths; successes and failures. These commonplace occurrences, intrinsically the same, vary slightly as they recur in each succeeding generation. Yet as the Buddenbrooks family eventually succumbs to the seductions of modernity - seductions that are at variance with its own traditions - its downfall becomes certain. |
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| Subject: | Middle class families > Germany > Lübeck > Fiction. Families > Germany > Lübeck > Fiction. Germany > Social life and customs > 19th century > Fiction. Merchants > Germany > Lübeck > Fiction. Lübeck (Germany) > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Domestic fiction. Philosophical fiction. Novels. Domestic fiction. |
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