CURRENTLY SOLD OUT

Vintage International Ser.: Buddenbrooks : The Decline of a Family by Thomas Mann and Thomas Mann (1994, Trade Paperback)

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 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. In immensity of scope, richness of detail, and fullness of humanity, Buddenbrooks surpasses all other modem family chronicles; it has, indeed, proved a model for most of them. Judged as the greatest of Mann's novels by some critics, it is ranked as among the greatest by all. Thomas Mann was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1929.

Lc Classification Number
Pt2625.A44b82 1994
Reviews
"A remarkable achievement . . . In Woods's sparkling translation, the reader encounters a work that is closer in style, vocabulary, idiom, and tone to the original."-NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW"Wonderfully fresh and elegant . . . Essential reading for anyone who wishes to enter Mann's fictional universe."-LOS ANGELES TIMES From the Hardcover edition., "A remarkable achievement . . . In Woods's sparkling translation, the reader encounters a work that is closer in style, vocabulary, idiom, and tone to the original."--NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW"Wonderfully fresh and elegant . . . Essential reading for anyone who wishes to enter Mann's fictional universe."--LOS ANGELES TIMES, "A remarkable achievement . . . In Woods's sparkling translation, the reader encounters a work that is closer in style, vocabulary, idiom, and tone to the original." -NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW "Wonderfully fresh and elegant . . . Essential reading for anyone who wishes to enter Mann's fictional universe." -LOS ANGELES TIMES From the Hardcover edition.
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
93-043499
Dewey Decimal
833/.912
Series
Vintage International Ser.
Dewey Edition
20

Best Selling in Books

Current slide {CURRENT_SLIDE} of {TOTAL_SLIDES}- Best Selling in Books

Current slide {CURRENT_SLIDE} of {TOTAL_SLIDES}- Save on Books