Thomas Mann

In this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Mann uses a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps--a community devoted exclusively to sickness--as a microcosm for Europe, which in the years before 1914 was already exhibiting the first symptoms of its own terminal irrationality. "The Magic Mountain" is a monumental work of erudition and irony, sexual tension and intellectual ferment, a book that pulses with life in the midst of death.

A Novel

The Magic Mountain

Death in Venice

The story of four generations of a wealthy bourgeois family in northern Germany captures the triumphs and tragedies, successes and failures, relationships, loves, and ordinary events of everyday middle-class life

The Decline of a Family

Buddenbrooks

The Life of the German Composer Adrian Leverkuhn As Told by a Friend

Doctor Faustus 

»Man denke sich den folgenden dichterischen Charakter. Ein Mann, edel und leidenschaftlich, aber auf irgendeine Weise gezeichnet und in seinem Gemüt eine dunkle Ausnahme unter den Regelrechten ... vornehm als Ansnahme, aber vornehm als Leidender, einsam, ausgeschlossen vom Glücke, von der Bummelei des Glücks und ganz und gar auf die Leistung gestellt.« Was Thomas Mann 1907 noch auf Shakespeares >Othello Schönheitl Wer das Tiefste gedacht , liebt das Lebendigste . Sokrates und Alkibiades

Der Tod in Venedig

Tonio Kröger

roman

Der Zauberberg

A new translation of the complete text of the tetralogy on the life of the biblical hero of Joseph includes The Stories of Jacob, Young Joseph, Joseph in Egypt, and Joseph the Provider and follows Joseph from his early life and fall into slavery to his rise to power in Egypt.

The Stories of Jacob, Young Joseph, Joseph in Egypt, Joseph the Provider

Joseph and His Brothers

Mario und der Zauberer

Bir Ailenin Cöküsü

Buddenbrooklar

These stories, as direct as Thomas Mann's novels are complex, are perfect illustrations of their author's belief that "a story must tell itself." Varying in theme, in style, in tone, each is in its own way characteristic of Mann's prodigious talents. From the high art of the famous title novella ("A story," Mann said, "of death... of the voluptuousness of doom"), to the irony of "Felix Krull," the early story on which he later based his comic novel The Confessions of Felix Krull, they are stunning testimony to the mastery and virtuosity of a literary giant. Book jacket.

Death in Venice, and Seven Other Stories

Morte em Veneza

uzun öykü

Venedik'te ölüm

Un compositor envejecido y fatigado descubre, en medio de la decadente belleza veneciana, el espontáneo atractivo de un angelical adolescente. Publicada en 1914, esta novela cimentaría la fama de Mann, que en 1929 recibió el premio Nobel. Completa este volumen otro espléndido relato de Mann, Mario y el mago, y un interesante prólogo del académico de la lengua Francisco Ayala.

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