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Buddenbrooks (German: [ˈbʊdn̩ˌbʁoːks] ⓘ) is a 1901 novel by Thomas Mann, chronicling the decline of a wealthy north German merchant family over the course of four generations, incidentally portraying the manner of life and mores of the Hanseatic bourgeoisie in the years from 1835 to 1877.
Oct 9, 2022 · Of the many works by the renowned German author Thomas Mann (1875–1955), including Death in Venice and The Magic Mountain, none match the epic proportion or literary legacy of the novel Buddenbrooks.
Feb 15, 2024 · "Buddenbrooks, Volume 1 of 2" by Thomas Mann is a novel written in the late 19th century. The story explores the fortunes and decline of a wealthy merchant family in Lübeck, Germany, through the eyes of its members, particularly focusing on the characters of Consul Jean Buddenbrook and his children.
Buddenbrooks, novel by Thomas Mann, published in 1901 in two volumes in German as Buddenbrooks, Verfall einer Familie (“Buddenbrooks, the Decline of a Family”). The work was Mann’s first novel, and it expressed the ambivalence of his feelings about the value of the life of the artist as opposed to.
Jul 27, 2012 · 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.
Jan 15, 2020 · Buddenbrooks. Thomas Mann. Courier Dover Publications, Jan 15, 2020 - Fiction - 752 pages. Acclaimed by The Guardian as "one of the best novels of the twentieth century," Thomas Mann's landmark...
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...
Buddenbrooks, first published in Germany in 1900, when Mann was only twenty-five, has become a classic of modem literature -- the story of four generations of a wealthy bourgeois family in...
Jan 1, 2011 · "Buddenbrooks: Verfall einer Familie" by Thomas Mann is a novel written in the late 19th century. The book centers around the Buddenbrook family, exploring their rise and decline as they navigate the social and economic changes of their time.
Discover Mann's Nobel Prizewinning semi-autobiographical and sweeping family epic. The Buddenbrook clan is everything you'd expect of a nineteenth-century German merchant family - wealthy, esteemed, established.
