Mann, Thomas 1875-1955

The magic mountain : Der Zauberberg by Thomas Mann ( Book )
235 editions published between 1924 and 2011 in 4 languages and held by 7,217 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A sanitorium in the Swiss Alps reflects the societal ills of pre-twentieth-century Europe, and a young marine engineer rises from his life of anonymity to become a pivotal character in a story about how a human's environment affects self identity. In this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Mann uses a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps, a community devoted exclusively to sickness, as a microcosm for Europe, which in the years before 1914 was already exhibiting the first symptoms of its own terminal irrationality. The Magic Mountain is a monumental work of erudition and irony, sexual tension and intellectual ferment, a book that pulses with life in the midst of death

Joseph and his brothers by Thomas Mann ( Book )
291 editions published between 1931 and 2013 in 10 languages and held by 5,240 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Retells the bible story of Joseph, whose brothers tried to kill him because of his dreams

Buddenbrooks : the decline of a family by Thomas Mann ( Book )
621 editions published between 1901 and 2013 in 8 languages and held by 4,952 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
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 modern 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

Doctor Faustus; the life of the German composer, Adrian Leverkühn by Thomas Mann ( Book )
219 editions published between 1947 and 2012 in 15 languages and held by 4,667 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A new translation of a 1948 novel by a German writer based on the Faust legend. The protagonist is Adrian Leverkuhn, a musical genius who trades his body and soul to the devil in exchange for 24 years of triumph as the world's greatest composer

Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann ( Book )
198 editions published between 1900 and 2009 in 6 languages and held by 4,156 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Mann's first novel in which he portrays several generations of a merchant family who belong to the bourgeois aristocracy in Lubeck, tracking them from high point to decline

Royal highness by Thomas Mann ( Book )
333 editions published between 1900 and 2011 in 13 languages and held by 3,028 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"The story of Prince Klaus Heinrich and his marriage to Imma Spoelmann, the daughter of an American tycoon, the novel is set in the German Empire at its height and satirically suggests that the monarchy was ripe for decay."

Death in Venice by Thomas Mann ( Book )
110 editions published between 1924 and 2012 in English and German and held by 2,999 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
During a holiday in Venice, an aging German writer becomes intrigued by a youth whose remote beauty embodies the classical ideal

Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull by Thomas Mann ( Book )
416 editions published between 1900 and 2012 in 13 languages and held by 2,790 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Gefingeerde memoires van een amoralistische jonge levensgenieter

Der zauberberg, roman by Thomas Mann ( Book )
397 editions published between 1924 and 2012 in 3 languages and held by 2,717 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Seit seinem Erscheinen 1924 zieht "Der Zauberberg" Generationen von Lesern in seinen Bann, regt unzählige Literaturwissenschaftler zum Nachdenken an und inspiriert Autoren und Künstler zu ihrem Schaffen. Für Millionen von Menschen ist das Sanatorium "Berghof" in Davos zur Weltbühne geworden, auf der die Kurgäste die Befindlichkeit ihrer Epoche der Jahre vor dem Ersten Weltkrieg repräsentieren

Joseph the provider by Thomas Mann ( Book )
82 editions published between 1943 and 2011 in 10 languages and held by 2,515 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Joseph is released from prison to become an advisor to the Pharaoh and is able to protect and provide for his family when they come to Eygpt to buy food