TY - GEN AU - Mann, Thomas AU - Lowe-Porter, H.T. TI - Buddenbrooks SN - 9780749386474 U1 - 833.912 MAN PY - 1988/// CY - London PB - Vintage Books KW - English Literature KW - German Literature KW - German Fiction KW - Novel KW - Nobel Prize (1929) N2 - 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 ER -