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25%OFFThomas Mann - Buddenbrooks - 9780749386474 - V9780749386474
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Buddenbrooks

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Description for Buddenbrooks Paperback. The Buddenbrook clan is everything you'd expect of a nineteenth-century German merchant family - wealthy, esteemed, established. Four generations later, a tide of twentieth-century modernism has gradually disintegrated the bourgeois values on which the Buddenbrooks built their success. Translator(s): Lowe-Porter, H.T. Num Pages: 864 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 33. Weight in Grams: 630.

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. Four generations later, a tide of twentieth-century modernism has gradually disintegrated the bourgeois values on which the Buddenbrooks built their success.

In this, Mann's first novel, his astounding, semi-autobiographical family epic, he portrays the transition of genteel Germanic stability to a very modern uncertainty.

'Perhaps the first great novel of the 20th century' New York Times

Product Details

Publisher
Vintage Classics
Number of pages
624
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Condition
New
Number of Pages
864
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780749386474
SKU
V9780749386474
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About Thomas Mann
Thomas Mann was born in 1875 in Lübeck, of a line of prosperous and influential merchants. Mann was educated under the discipline of North German schoolmasters before working for an insurance office aged nineteen. During this time he secretly wrote his first tale, Fallen, and shortly afterwards left the insurance office to study art and literature at the University in ... Read more

Reviews for Buddenbrooks
Perhaps the first great novel of the 20th century
New York Times
A simple but magnificent proof of genius. A first novel by a 25-year-old with absolute command of his craft, uncanny knowledge of his world, its past and present, and a daring originality which makes its last pages among the most startlingly moving I know
Alan ... Read more

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