Buddenbrooks

By:

Mann, Thomas

Contributor(s):

Lowe-Porter, H.T [Translator]

Publication details: London: Vintage Books, 1988.Description: viii, 854p.: pbk.: 21 cmISBN:

9780749386474

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

833.912 MAN

Summary: Mann's semi-autobiographical and sweeping family epic. The book that won him the Nobel Prize for Literature Discover Mann's Nobel Prizewinning semi-autobiographical and sweeping family epic. The Buddenbrook clan is everything you'd expect of a nineteenth-century German merchant family - wealthy, esteemed, established. Four generations later, a tide of twentieth-century modernism has gradually disintegrated the bourgeois values on which the Buddenbrooks built their success. In this, Mann's first novel, his astounding, semi-autobiographical family epic, he portrays the transition of genteel Germanic stability to a very modern uncertainty. https://www.penguin.com.au/books/buddenbrooks-9780749386474

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Mann's semi-autobiographical and sweeping family epic. The book that won him the Nobel Prize for Literature

Discover Mann's Nobel Prizewinning semi-autobiographical and sweeping family epic.

The Buddenbrook clan is everything you'd expect of a nineteenth-century German merchant family - wealthy, esteemed, established. Four generations later, a tide of twentieth-century modernism has gradually disintegrated the bourgeois values on which the Buddenbrooks built their success.

In this, Mann's first novel, his astounding, semi-autobiographical family epic, he portrays the transition of genteel Germanic stability to a very modern uncertainty.

https://www.penguin.com.au/books/buddenbrooks-9780749386474

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