Thomas Mann
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 289
Language
English
Description
"The Magic Mountain is simply one of the greatest novels ever written." - The Guardian
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. The Magic Mountain takes place in an exclusive tuberculosis sanatorium in the Swiss Alps - a community devoted to sickness that serves as a fictional microcosm for Europe in the days before the First World...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A new translation of the author's short fiction. The title story is on a man's infatuation with a beautiful boy while on holiday in Venice, in The Blood of the Walsungs a woman cheats on her fiance by having an affair with her twin brother, and in The Will for Happiness a sick man waits five years to marry a woman, dying the day after the wedding.
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume no. 107
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Series
Modern library of the world's best books volume 365
Language
English
Description
Mann's rendering of the classic Faust legend explores the goals, values, and conflicts of modern man.
7) Buddenbrooks
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
First published in Germany in 1901 and translated into English in 1924, Thomas Mann's "Buddenbrooks" is the story of the decline of a wealthy German family over four generations which takes place in the years 1835 to 1877. Mann began writing the novel, his first, when he was only twenty-two years old and based much of his critically acclaimed work on the story of his own family and their peers. Mann was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929...
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xxi, 557 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When World War I broke out the author of "Buddenbrooks" was almost 40 but not yet in the public view one of the giants of European literature. In his native Germany it was thought that Gerhart Hauptmann and probably a few of his elder contemporaries were towering above him. But he already had a reputation as one of the most interesting writers in Europe and as a moralist from whom his many readers expected a message in a time of great trials. His...
10) Joseph and his brothers: the stories of Jacob, young Joseph, Joseph in Egypt, Joseph the provider
Author
Publisher
Everyman's Library
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
xl, 1492 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Joseph und seine Brüder volume 1
Language
English
Description
Retells the biblical story of Joseph, whose brothers' jealousy leads to his enslavement in Egypt.
Author
Series
Joseph und seine Brüder volume 4
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1944
Physical Desc
vii, 422 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Thomas Mann regarded his monumental retelling of the biblical story of Joseph as his magnum opus. The four parts- The Stories of Jacob, Young Joseph, Joseph in Egypt, and Joseph the Provider- are a novel telling of Joseph's fall into slavery and his rise to be lord over Egypt.
15) Joseph in Egypt
Author
Series
Joseph und seine Brüder volume 3
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1938, c1936
Physical Desc
2 v. (664 p., [1] leaf of plates) : coll. map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Thomas Mann regarded his monumental re-telling of the biblical story of Joseph as his magnum opus, telling of Joseph's fall into slavery and his rise to be lord over Egypt.
As Joseph is saved from the well and sold to Egypt, he adopts a new name, Osarseph, replacing the Jo- element with a reference to Osiris to indicate that he is now in the underworld. This change of name to account for changing circumstances encourages Amenhotep to change his own...
16) The holy sinner
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1983, c1951
Edition
1st Vintage Books ed.
Physical Desc
vi, 336 p. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Holy Sinner explores a subject that fascinated Thomas Mann to the end of his life - the origins of evil and evil's connection with magic. Here Mann uses a medieval legend about "the exceeding mercy of God and the birth of the blessed Pope Gregory" - illuminating the notion of original sin and transcendence of evil.
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1961
Edition
[1st American ed.].
Physical Desc
242, ix pages 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The great German author recounts the events, and the process of reflection, that contributed to the creation of his novel connecting the degeneracy of conscience under Nazism with the Faust myth.
18) Doctor Faustus
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume no. 80
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
1992
Physical Desc
xxxv, 523 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xx, 252 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Sparkling new translations highlight the humor and poignancy of Mann's best stories-including his masterpiece, in its first English translation in nearly a century. A towering figure in the pantheon of twentieth-century literature, Thomas Mann has often been perceived as a dry and forbidding writer-"the starched collar," as Bertolt Brecht once called him. But in fact, his fiction is lively, humane, sometimes hilarious. In these fresh renderings of...
