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Everyman's library volume 289
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 107
Language
English
Description
A new translation of Mann's classic story of four generations of a wealthy bourgeois family in northern Germany captures the triumphs and tragedies, successes and failures, relationships, loves, and ordinary events of middle-class life
Author
Language
English
Description
Hyperpartisanship has gridlocked the American government. Congress' approval ratings are at record lows, and both Democrats and Republicans are disgusted by the government's inability to get anything done. In It's Even Worse Than It Looks, Congressional scholars Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein present a grim picture of how party polarization and tribal politics have led Congress—and the United States—to the brink of institutional failure.In...
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1951
Language
English
Description
The Holy Sinner explores a subject that fascinated Thomas Mann to the end of his life - the origins of evil and evil's connection with magic. Here Mann uses a medieval legend about "the exceeding mercy of God and the birth of the blessed Pope Gregory" - illuminating the notion of original sin and transcendence of evil.
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 47
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1988
Language
English
Description
The Nobel Prize—winning author's masterful novella of eros and obsession, presented alongside other short works of lyrical beauty and psychological depth.
In Thomas Mann's immortal novella A Death in Venice, renowned author Gustave Aschenbach faces both middle age and a severe case of writer's block. He resolves to go on holiday in search of inspiration, only to find himself awestruck by the classical beauty of a fourteen-year-old boy. Submitting...
Author
Language
English
Description
Leverkühn's life story is a brilliant allegory of the rise of the Third Reich, of Germany's renunciation of its own humanity and its embrace of ambition and nihilism. It is also Mann's most profound meditation on the German genius—both national and individual—and the terrible responsibilities of the truly great artist.
15) Bashan and I
Author
Publisher
Pine Street Books
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Thomas Mann reflects on his unique relationship with his German short-haired pointer, discussing how he learned to love and respect his dog through their many adventures together.
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 80
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
1992
Language
English
Description
Thomas Mann's last great novel, first published in 1947 and now newly rendered into English by acclaimed translator John E. Woods, is a modern reworking of the Faust legend, in which Germany sells its soul to the Devil. Mann's protagonist
Author
Publisher
Stephen Greene Press
Pub. Date
1968
Language
English
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Description
The focal point of this collection of tombstone inscriptions is colonial, pioneer, and frontier American attitudes toward death by misadventure. Gathered from all over America, these epitaphs candidly reveal much of American life in bygone times, particularly its occupational hazards.