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."

Death in Venice CD

Literature & Fiction

MANN, THOMAS

Contemporary

Caedmon

The story of Hans Castorp's bizarre study at an Alpine sanatorium embodies a subtle commentary on conditions in Europe before World War I

The Magic Mountain: Der Zauberberg (English and German Edition)

Literary

Random House, Inc.

Translated by Kenneth Burke, Introduction by Erich Heller

Death In Venice

Kenneth Burke

Erich Heller

McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

Death in Venice

Vintage Books

A tale of genius in which Thomas Mann explores the artist’s relation to life, Death in Venice, first published in 1912, is an acknowledged masterpiece of European short fiction.

Death in Venice: And Other Stories

Vintage Classics

Cover has reader wear (creases, a couple of indentations from a pencil). Bookstore price sticker on front. In German. Pages are clean, unmarked. Ships fast from California.

Tonio Kroger

Pearson College Div

A Major Literary Event: a brilliant new translation of Thomas Mann's first great novel, one of the two for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1929. 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 northern Germany. With consummate skill, Mann draws a rounded picture of middle-class life: births and christenings; marriages, divorces, and deaths; successes and failures. These commonplace occurrences, intrinsically the same, vary slightly as they recur in each succeeding generation. Yet as the Buddenbrooks family eventually succumbs to the seductions of modernity -- seductions that are at variance with its own traditions -- its downfall becomes certain. In immensity of scope, richness of detail, and fullness of humanity, Buddenbrooks surpasses all other modem family chronicles; it has, indeed, proved a model for most of them. Judged as the greatest of Mann's novels by some critics, it is ranked as among the greatest by all. Thomas Mann was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1929.

Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family

translated by Lowe-Porter, H. T.

British & Irish

Penguin

Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man

Penguin Books, Ltd.

Magic Mountain

Mann's rendering of the classic Faust legend explores the goals, values, and conflicts of modern man

Modern Classics Doctor Faustus

Penguin Classic

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