Most Popular Books by Thomas Mann

Thomas Mann is the author of Correspondence 1943-1955 (2006), The Hesse-Mann Letters (1976), Death in Venice (1954), A Man and His Dog (1930), Little Herr Friedmann And Other Stories (2017).

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Correspondence 1943-1955

release date: Dec 04, 2006
Correspondence 1943-1955
The correspondence of Theodor Adorno and Thomas Mann documents a rare encounter of creative tension between literary tradition and aesthetic modernism spanning the years 1943-1955.

Death in Venice

Death in Venice
The world-famous masterpiece by Nobel laureate Thomas Mann -- here in a new translation by Michael Henry Heim Published on the eve of World War I, a decade after "Buddenbrooks" had established Thomas Mann as a literary celebrity, "Death in Venice" tells the story of Gustav von Aschenbach, a successful but aging writer who follows his wanderlust to Venice in search of spiritual fulfillment that instead leads to his erotic doom. In the decaying city, besieged by an unnamed epidemic, he becomes obsessed with an exquisite Polish boy, Tadzio. "It is a story of the voluptuousness of doom," Mann wrote. "But the problem I had especially in mind was that of the artist''s dignity."

Little Herr Friedmann And Other Stories

release date: Nov 30, 2017
Little Herr Friedmann And Other Stories
A selection of work taken from his highly acclaimed collection Stories of a Lifetime by one of the greatest writers of the 20th Century. In elegant prose, Mann explores such eternal themes as: individuals forced into the extremes of their existence, isolation and the artist''s tentative position in the harsh world, the realization of one''s true nature.

The Coming Victory of Democracy

The Coming Victory of Democracy
The text of the lecture which, in slightly abbreviated form, was delivered by Thomas Mann on his coast-to-coast lecture tour February to May 1938.

Doktor Faustus: Kommentar

release date: Jan 01, 2007
Doktor Faustus: Kommentar
A reworking of the Faust legend in which a fictional German composer, Adrian Leverkühn, makes a pact with Mephistopheles for early fame. After confessing his pact, Leverkühn collapses, dying ten years later, bedridden and helpless. The composer''s life parallels the rise and fall of Nazism.

Doctor Faustus

release date: Jan 01, 1992
Doctor Faustus
Tells the story of Adrian Leverkuhn, a theological student turned composer, who symbolically enters into a pact with the Devil, selling his soul and body in return for twenty-four years of musical genius.

Der Tod in Venedig (illustriert)

release date: Feb 27, 2022
Der Tod in Venedig (illustriert)
Thomas Mann nannte seine Novelle die Tragödie einer Entwürdigung: Gustav von Aschenbach, ein berühmter Schriftsteller von etwas über fünfzig Jahren und schon länger verwitwet, hat sein Leben ganz auf Leistung gestellt. Eine sommerliche Erholungsreise führt ihn nach Venedig. Dort beobachtet er am Strand täglich einen schönen Knaben, der mit seiner eleganten Mutter und seinen Schwestern samt Gouvernante im gleichen Hotel wohnt. In ihn verliebt sich der Alternde. Er bewahrt zwar stets eine scheue Distanz zu dem Knaben, der späte Gefühlsrausch jedoch, dem sich der sonst so selbstgestrenge von Aschenbach nun willenlos hingibt, macht aus ihm letztlich einen würdelosen Greis.

Konigliche Hoheit: Roman

release date: Jul 12, 2017
Konigliche Hoheit: Roman
K�nigliche Hoheit: Roman by Thomas Mann

Joseph and His Brothers: Joseph the provider

Joseph and His Brothers: Joseph the provider
V. 1. Joseph and his brothers.--v. 2. Young Joseph.--v. 3. Joseph in Egypt.--v. 4. Joseph the provider.

The magic mountain (Der z auberberg) tr. from the German

Tristano

release date: Dec 15, 2013
Tristano
In ritiro in un sanatorio, lo scrittore Spinnel si ritrova in compagnia della signora Klöterjahn, bella moglie di un uomo d’affari, arrivata al sanatorio in preda a gravi problemi polmonari. Già invaghito dell’acume della donna che lo risveglia dal torpore in cui era caduto a causa degli altri ospiti della struttura, lo scrittore rimane folgorato dopo averla convinta a suonare il pianoforte, passione che la donna ha dovuto abbandonare a causa del matrimonio. Le note del “Tristano e Isotta” di Wagner li legheranno profondamente. Tratto da “La morte a Venezia” pubblicato da Feltrinelli. Numero di caratteri: 92.025

The Oxford Guide to Library Research

release date: Oct 27, 2005

Confessions of Felix Krull Confidence Man

The war and the future ; an address

Tonio Kroger

release date: May 18, 2021
Tonio Kroger
Tonio Kroger is a novel written by Thomas Mann and published in 1903. This work was the first one that Mann published. Tonio Kroger creates a pair with Death in Venice, a more famous story, because both tell of an artist''s life and his travels. Though the plots are different and the novels end quite differently, both describe Mann''s views on art.

Joseph and His Brothers by Thomas Mann

Joseph and His Brothers by Thomas Mann
Joseph and His Brothers (Joseph und seine Brüder) is a four-part novel by Thomas Mann, written over the course of 16 years. Mann retells the familiar stories of Genesis, from Jacob to Joseph (chapters 27-50), setting it in the historical context of the Amarna Period. Mann considered it his greatest work. The tetralogy consists of: The Stories of Jacob (Die Geschichten Jaakobs; written December 1926 to October 1930, Genesis 27-36) Young Joseph (Der junge Joseph; written January 1931 to June 1932, Genesis 37) Joseph in Egypt (Joseph in Ägypten; written July 1932 to 23 August 1936, Genesis 38-39) Joseph the Provider (Joseph, der Ernährer; written 10 August 1940 to 4 January 1943, Genesis 40-50) Mann''s presentation of the ancient Orient and the origins of Judaism is influenced by Alfred Jeremias'' 1904 Das Alte Testament im Lichte des Alten Orients, emphasizing Babylonian influence in the editing of Genesis, and by the work of Dmitry Merezhkovsky. Mann sets the story in the 14th century BC and makes Akhenaten the pharaoh who appoints Joseph his vice-regent. Joseph is aged 28 at the ascension of Akhenaten, which would mean he was born about 1380 BC in standard Egyptian chronology, and Jacob in the mid-1420s BC. Other contemporary rulers mentioned include Tushratta and Suppiluliuma. A dominant topic of the novel is Mann''s exploration of the status of mythology and his presentation of the Late Bronze Age mindset with regard to mythical truths and the emergence of monotheism. Events of the story of Genesis are frequently associated and identified with other mythic topics. Central is the notion of underworld and the mythical descent to the underworld. Jacob''s sojourn in Mesopotamia (hiding from the wrath of Esau) is paralleled with Joseph''s life in Egypt (exiled by the jealousy of his brothers), and on a smaller scale his captivity in the well; they are further identified with the "hellraid" of Inanna-Ishtar-Demeter, the Mesopotamian Tammuz myth, the Jewish Babylonian captivity as well as the Harrowing of Hell of Jesus Christ.

Buddenbrooks

release date: Jan 01, 1993
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