"John E. Woods is revising our impression of Thomas Mann, masterpiece by masterpiece." -The New Yorker"Doctor Faustus is Mann's deepest artistic gesture. . . . Finely translated by John E. Woods." -The New RepublicThomas 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 protagonis...

The Complete Novels of Thomas Mann gathers the major works of one of twentieth-century Europe's most searching novelists, tracing a career that moves from the dynastic realism of Buddenbrooks through the ironic social comedy of Royal Highness, the philosophical plenitude of The Magic Mountain, and the mythic expansiveness of Joseph and His Brothers. It also includes the historical and artistic meditations of Lotte in Weimar and Doctor Faustus, as well as the deliberately playful narratives...

**The definitive translation of 'perhaps the first great novel of the 20th century' (**New York Times)‘I bear within me the seed, the rudiments, the possibility of life's capacities and endeavours. Where might I be, if I were not here?’Buddenbrooks is one of the original, and greatest, of family chronicles: the story of four generations of a wealthy and bourgeois German dynasty as they experience all the anguish and rewards of human life: ...

The Complete Works of Thomas Mann presents the expansive achievement of one of twentieth-century literature's defining stylists. Across novels, novellas, essays, speeches, and other writings, Mann examines the tensions between art and bourgeois society, intellect and instinct, disease and vitality, private desire and public responsibility. His famously measured prose—ironic, ceremonious, psychologically acute, and richly allusive—creates an intricate literary world in which individual dest...

Buddenbrooks traces the decline of a prosperous Lübeck merchant family across four generations, transforming domestic chronicle into a profound anatomy of bourgeois civilization. Written in a poised realist style enriched by irony, musical patterning, and psychological nuance, the novel belongs to the great nineteenth-century European tradition while already anticipating modernism's concern with inwardness, decadence, and cultural exhaustion. Mann's meticulous attention to commerce, ritual...

**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...

Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain is a monumental modernist novel set in a Swiss tuberculosis sanatorium, where the young engineer Hans Castorp arrives for a brief visit and remains for seven years. Through languorous conversations, medical rituals, erotic awakenings, and philosophical debates, Mann transforms the Alpine retreat into a symbolic microcosm of prewar Europe. Its style is ironic, expansive, and intellectually orchestral, blending Bildungsroman, satire, philosophical fiction, an...

Joseph in Egypt (Vol. 1) continues Thomas Mann's monumental retelling of Genesis by transporting Joseph from the pastoral world of Canaan into the ritualized, sensuous, and politically intricate civilization of Egypt. Mann transforms biblical narrative into expansive modernist epic: ironic, learned, psychologically subtle, and saturated with mythological analogy. This volume dwells on Joseph's enslavement, his entry into Potiphar's household, and the gradual unfolding of his charisma, trea...

Joseph in Egypt, the second volume of Thomas Mann's monumental tetralogy Joseph and His Brothers, reimagines the biblical sojourn of Joseph in Potiphar's house and his descent into prison with extraordinary psychological and mythic richness. Mann transforms Genesis into a vast modern epic, blending irony, erudition, symbolic anthropology, and sensuous narrative detail. Set within the cultural world of ancient Egypt, the novel situates sacred story within comparative myth, Freudian insight,...

Thomas Mann's *Death in Venice* (1912) follows Gustav von Aschenbach, a celebrated, disciplined writer who travels to Venice seeking renewal and becomes enthralled by the beautiful adolescent Tadzio. Against the city's decaying splendor and concealed cholera epidemic, Mann examines artistic idealism, erotic obsession, mortality, and the instability of cultivated self-control. The novella's exquisitely controlled prose, symbolic imagery, ironic distance, and recurring opposition between Apo...

Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain (1924) follows Hans Castorp, a young Hamburg engineer who visits his cousin at a Swiss sanatorium and gradually becomes absorbed into its diseased, intellectually charged society. What begins as a three-week stay expands into seven years, as tuberculosis, erotic fascination, and philosophical debate suspend ordinary time. Mann's expansive, ironic narrative combines psychological realism with allegory, essayistic digression, and a carefully controlled play b...

Published in 1901, Thomas Mann's *Buddenbrooks* traces four generations of a prosperous Lübeck merchant family whose gradual economic, social, and spiritual decline becomes a comprehensive portrait of nineteenth-century bourgeois culture. Combining the expansive architecture of the family chronicle with finely observed realism, psychological analysis, and a subtly ironic narrative voice, the novel examines the tensions between commercial duty, artistic sensibility, erotic desire, and histo...