Buddenbrooks : the decline of a family
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Author
Contributors
Woods, John E. translator.
Published
New York : Vintage International, 1994.
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Subjects
LC Subjects
Domestic fiction.
Families -- Fiction.
Families -- Germany -- Lübeck -- Fiction.
Germany -- Fiction.
Germany -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction.
Lübeck (Germany) -- Fiction.
Merchants -- Germany -- Lübeck -- Fiction.
Middle class families -- Germany -- Lübeck -- Fiction.
Philosophical fiction.
Families -- Fiction.
Families -- Germany -- Lübeck -- Fiction.
Germany -- Fiction.
Germany -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction.
Lübeck (Germany) -- Fiction.
Merchants -- Germany -- Lübeck -- Fiction.
Middle class families -- Germany -- Lübeck -- Fiction.
Philosophical fiction.
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Published
New York : Vintage International, 1994.
Format
Book
Physical Desc
731 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Notes
Description
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. In immensity of scope, richness of detail, and fullness of humanity, Buddenbrooks surpasses all other modern 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.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Mann, T., & Woods, J. E. (1994). Buddenbrooks: the decline of a family (First Vintage International edition.). Vintage International.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955 and John E. Woods. 1994. Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family. Vintage International.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955 and John E. Woods. Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family Vintage International, 1994.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Mann, Thomas, and John E Woods. Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family First Vintage International edition., Vintage International, 1994.
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