A classic of modern literature: Buddenbrooks is the story of four generations of a wealthy bourgeois family in northern Germany facing the advent of modernity, in an uncertain new world, the family’s bonds and traditions begin to disintegrate. With an introduction by T. J. Reed, and translated by John E. Woods. As Mann charts the Buddenbrooks’ decline from prosperity to bankruptcy, from moral and psychic soundness to sickly piety, artistic decadence, and madness, he ushers the reader into a world of stunning vitality, pieced together from births and funerals, weddings and divorces, recipes, gossip, and earthy humor. First published in Germany in 1901, when Mann was only twenty-six, Buddenbrooks surpasses all other modern family chronicles in its immensity of scope, richness of detail, and fullness of humanity. With remarkable fidelity to the original German text, this superb translation emphasizes the magnificent scale of Mann’s achievement in this riveting, tragic novel.
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Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family (Everyman’s Library)
By: Thomas Mann
ISBN-10: 0679417370
ISBN-13 : 978-0679417378
Publisher : Everyman’s Library (October 4, 1994)
Language : English
Hardcover: 776 pages
Reading Age : None
Dimensions : 5.34 x 1.63 x 8.34 inches
Item Weight : 1.72 pounds
$30.49 $24.39
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