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Buddenbrooks

The Decline of a Family

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Author Thomas Mann
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Knopf | Vintage
On sale Jun 28, 1994 | 736 Pages | 978-0-679-75260-8
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First published in 1900 when Mann was only twenty-five, Buddenbrooks is a minutely imagined chronicle of four generations of a North German mercantile family--a work so true to life that it scandalized the author's former neighbors in his native Lubeck. Now Mann's triumph of realism is available in its first new English version in seventy years. With perfect fidelity, John E. Woods gives us a Buddenbrooks that is rich in dialect and varied in tone, exuberant in its wordplay and unfettered in its comedy. He has restored a classic to is origins and put blood back in its veins.



"A remarkable achievement...In Mr. Wood's sparkling new translation, the reader now encounters a work that is closer in style, vocabulary, idiom, and tone to the original."--TheNew York Times Book Review
  • WINNER | 1929
    Nobel Prize
Thomas Mann (1875–1955) was from Germany. At the age of 25, he published his first novel, Buddenbrooks. In 1924, The Magic Mountain was published, and five years later, Mann was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Following the rise of the Nazis to power, he left Germany for good in 1933 to live in Switzerland and then in California, where he wrote Doctor Faustus (first published in the United States in 1948).  View titles by Thomas Mann

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First published in 1900 when Mann was only twenty-five, Buddenbrooks is a minutely imagined chronicle of four generations of a North German mercantile family--a work so true to life that it scandalized the author's former neighbors in his native Lubeck. Now Mann's triumph of realism is available in its first new English version in seventy years. With perfect fidelity, John E. Woods gives us a Buddenbrooks that is rich in dialect and varied in tone, exuberant in its wordplay and unfettered in its comedy. He has restored a classic to is origins and put blood back in its veins.



"A remarkable achievement...In Mr. Wood's sparkling new translation, the reader now encounters a work that is closer in style, vocabulary, idiom, and tone to the original."--TheNew York Times Book Review

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  • WINNER | 1929
    Nobel Prize

Author

Thomas Mann (1875–1955) was from Germany. At the age of 25, he published his first novel, Buddenbrooks. In 1924, The Magic Mountain was published, and five years later, Mann was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Following the rise of the Nazis to power, he left Germany for good in 1933 to live in Switzerland and then in California, where he wrote Doctor Faustus (first published in the United States in 1948).  View titles by Thomas Mann

Additional formats

  • Buddenbrooks
    Buddenbrooks
    The Decline of a Family
    Thomas Mann
    978-0-307-78095-9
    Ebook
    Vintage
    May 25, 2011
  • Buddenbrooks
    Buddenbrooks
    The Decline of a Family; Introduction by T. J. Reed
    Thomas Mann
    978-0-679-41737-8
    $32.00 US
    Hardcover
    Everyman's Library
    Oct 04, 1994
  • Buddenbrooks
    Buddenbrooks
    The Decline of a Family
    Thomas Mann
    978-0-307-78095-9
    Ebook
    Vintage
    May 25, 2011
  • Buddenbrooks
    Buddenbrooks
    The Decline of a Family; Introduction by T. J. Reed
    Thomas Mann
    978-0-679-41737-8
    $32.00 US
    Hardcover
    Everyman's Library
    Oct 04, 1994

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