**The definitive translation of 'Arguably the great German novel' (**New York Times)‘This man is mad. Of that there can no longer be any doubt, and it is pitiable that no one representing psychiatric science is part of our circle’In May 1943 a middle-aged scholar retires to his study to reflect on the life and untimely death of his friend, a once-brilliant composer and the flower of German culture. He recalls how, consumed by over-reaching...

The acclaimed, definitive translation of Mann's magnum opus‘Deep is the well of the past. Should we not call it bottomless?’Thomas Mann described Joseph and His Brothers as his ‘pyramid’: his towering literary achievement, although the Nazi regime tried to sabotage its first publication. This lavish, sweeping saga retells the Biblical story of Joseph, whose dreams and visions set him apart from his siblings and lead him first to slavery and ultimat...

The fairy-tale masterpiece of modernist literature, in a landmark new translation.Thomas Mann’s supreme achievement, The Magic Mountain is a novel of astonishing philosophical complexity and formal brilliance. Sometimes forgotten is that it is also, at its heart, an emotionally resonant fairy-tale. Its guileless hero, a “simple young fellow” named Hans Castorp, travels to a snowbound Swiss sanatorium where an eclectic cast of characters spends their days d...

To unlock his full creative potential, Adrian Leverkühn makes a lethal pact with nature and intentionally contracts syphilis.A brilliant young composer, Adrian believes that the disease-induced madness will fuel his genius. But while his music reaches new heights, his mind and morality begin to unravel. Mann's interpretation of the Faustian legend is a story of madness and sanity, genius and corruption, intellectual attainment and Germany's moral fall.

Thomas Mann's later short stories published between 1925 and 1953 explore his abiding interest in human nature and his surroundings. Disorder and Early Sorrow and Mario and the Magician originate from Mann's own experiences: domestic life at the height of inflation under the early Weimar Republic; and a symbolic encounter with Fascism during an Italian holiday. The Transposed Heads: An Indian Legend is tongue-in-cheek legend set in ancient times and The Law is a subtly ironic narrative abo...

This 2nd volume of contains the following 50 works, arranged alphabetically by authors’ last names: Jerome, Jerome K.: Three Men in a Boat Joyce, James: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Joyce, James: Ulysses Kingsley, Charles: The Water-Babies Kipling, Rudyard: Kim La Fayette, Madame de: The Princess of Clèves Laclos, Pierre Choderlos de: Dangerous Liaisons Lawrence, D. H.: Sons and Lovers Lawrence, D. H.: The Rainbow Le Fanu, Sheridan: In a Glass Darkly Lewis, Matthew Gregory: The ...

Thomas Mann sets Goethe and Tolstoy side by side through a striking anecdote: a Weimar schoolmaster, once a boy, glimpsed Goethe in his garden and later met Count Leo Tolstoy by chance, as if history itself had arranged a meeting of giants. From that symbolic pairing, Mann launches a bold comparison of two writers who, though separated by century and nation, stand in the highest rank of world literature. He treats the conjunction "and" as a challenge as much as a link, inviting readers to ...

At a lavish Buddenbrook christening, the family celebrates the long-awaited birth of a first-born son, an heir who seems to promise renewal even as his frailty casts a shadow over the day. Flowers, food, clergy, and distinguished relatives fill the house, and Pastor Pringsheim presides over a ceremony that is both solemn and socially theatrical, carefully enhanced by the effort to secure Burgomaster Överdieck as godfather. When the baby receives his names and the guests come forward to kis...

Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks opens with the prosperous merchant family gathered in their elegant Lübeck home, where playful catechism, polished manners, and carefully described rooms reveal a world of bourgeois comfort balanced on tradition and status. Tony's spirited answers, the grandfather's old-fashioned authority, the Consul's practical defense of imagination, and the arrival of guests all expose the family's affectionate closeness and the first strains between generations, class expect...

'Why must I feel that almost all--no, all--of the devices and conventions used by art are today only fit for parody?' Adrian Leverkühn is a composer who, at terrible personal cost, makes the breakthrough from traditional art to extreme modernism and success. Creative and brilliant, he will stop at nothing to achieve greatness. Thomas Mann wrote Doctor Faustus (1947) in American exile during and just after the Second World War. A prominent and long-standing defende...

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"The Magic Mountain is simply one of the greatest novels ever written."—The GuardianFirst published in 1924, ‘The Magic Mountain’s widely considered to be one of the most influential works of twentieth-century German literature, written by Thomas Mann, a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate.It recounts the story of Hans Castorp, a young orphan who, while visiting his cousin in a sanatorium where she is...