Poetry Books by Thomas Mann
Publisher: Polity
Published Date: 2006-12-04
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
The correspondence between Adorno and Thomas Mann documents the creative tension between literary tradition and aesthetic modernism which would be sustained right up until the novelist's death in 1955. This text offers the reader an insight into the writings, events and personalities referred to in the correspondence.
Publisher: Ungar Publishing Company
Published Date: 1987
Categories: Philosophy
Essays examine democracy, patriotism, political life, the nature of virtue, and the culture of Germany
Publisher: Random House
Published Date: 1996
Categories: Psychological fiction
An extraordinary collection of stories from the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature -- the title story, one of Mann's most political, explores the rise of facism by way of a mysterious magician in a small Italian vollage. In this extraordinary collection of short stories, Thomas Mann uses settings as diverse as Germany, Italy, the Holy Land and the Far East to explore a theme which always preoccupied him: the two faces of things. Thus, in "A Man and His Dog" and "Disorder and Early Sorrow," small domestic tempests become symbolic of the discordant muddle of humanity. In "The Transposed Heads" and "The Tables of Law" the demands of the intellect clash with the desires of physiology -- an idea developed more fully in "The Black Swan," where body and spirit are tragically out of harmony. Written between 1918 and 1953, these stories offer us both an insight into Mann's development of thought and also some impressive literature from these interesting times.
Publisher: Rediscovered Books
Published Date: 2016-09
Categories: History
. .. the best of the letters present us with two fundamentally decent, sophisticated men grieving for the ruined world. In the 1930s and 1940s, they rail against the stupidity of war and the cowardice of diplomats, against the social savagery of the Nazis,
Publisher: Bristol Classical Press
Published Date: 1998-02-27
Categories: Foreign Language Study
Thomas Mann, Germany's most successful writer of prose fiction, was born in 1875 and died in 1955. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1929. These two stories, from Mann's middle period, concern major problems facing Germany between the wars: the first deals with the chaos of economic, social and moral values in the early twenties, and the second with the enslavement of a society by a fanatical and hypnotic dictator. In both pieces Mann's moral values are delicately pointed by his omnipresent irony.
Publisher: Everymans Library
Published Date: 2005
Categories: Fiction
A new translation of the complete text of the tetralogy on the life of the biblical hero of Joseph includes The Stories of Jacob, Young Joseph, Joseph in Egypt, and Joseph the Provider and follows Joseph from his early life and fall into slavery to his rise to power in Egypt.
Publisher: Bristol Classical Press
Published Date: 1998-01-01
Categories: Foreign Language Study
A title in the Bristol Classical Press German Texts series, in German with English notes, vocabulary and introduction. Thomas Mann (1875-1955), was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1929, and "Tonio Kroger" occupies a central position in his spiritual and artistic development. A study of youth, it draws together many strands of his life and work: the duality of his parentage; his abhorrence of discipline; and the influence of Schopenhauer and Wagner on his early phase of writing.
Publisher: Knopf
Published Date: 1997
Categories: Fiction
Mann's rendering of the classic Faust legend explores the goals, values, and conflicts of modern man
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Published Date: 2008-02-01
Categories: Fiction
"The Countess of Rudolstadt" is the follow-up volume to "Consuelo" and widely considered to be one of George Sand's finest works. Translated from the French by Fayette Robinson
Publisher: Random House
Published Date: 1996
Categories: Germany
This is the story of German composer, Adrian Leverkuhn. Zeitblom, the narrator, tells his friend's story against the backdrop of WW2, which acts as counterpoint to Mann's vast theme, the discord between genius and sanity
Publisher: Random House
Published Date: 2001-04-05
Categories: Fiction
"Death in Venice" is a story of obsession. Gustave von Aschenbach is a successful but aging writer who travels to Venice for a holiday. One day, at dinner, Aschenbach notices an exceptionally beautiful young boy who is staying with his family in the same hotel. Soon his days begin to revolve around seeing this boy and he is too distracted to pay attention to the ominous rumors that have begun to circulate about disease spreading through the city. Available exclusively from Vintage Classics.
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Published Date: 2005
Categories: Fiction
A sanitorium in the Swiss Alps reflects the societal ills of pre-twentieth-century Europe, and a young marine engineer rises from his life of anonymity to become a pivotal character in a story about how a human's environment affects self-identity. 10,000 first printing.
Publisher: Vintage
Published Date: 1983
Categories: Authors, German
The elderly German author Goethe living in Weimar is visited by the woman he loved in his youth
Publisher: Vintage
Published Date: 1994
Categories: Fiction
A new translation of Mann's classic story of four generations of a wealthy bourgeois family in northern Germany captures the triumphs and tragedies, successes and failures, relationships, loves, and ordinary events of middle-class life
Publisher: Random House
Published Date: 1996
Categories: English fiction
This is an intellectual drama of the forces which play upon modern man. Its theatre is a sanatorium in the Swiss mountains - a community organized with exclusive reference to ill-health.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published Date: 1998-01-01
Categories: Literary Criticism
Presents the correspondence of Thomas and Heinrich Mann
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published Date: 1990-01-01
Categories: Literary Criticism
"Mann's pivotal role during the Nazi period as perhaps the most eloquent spokesman for the 'other Germany' that lived in exile means that anyone studying the history of our century must begin with him. . . . These letters are literary and cultural documents that have few equals in our age."--James K. Lyon, University of California, San Diego "Mann's pivotal role during the Nazi period as perhaps the most eloquent spokesman for the 'other Germany' that lived in exile means that anyone studying the history of our century must begin with him. . . . These letters are literary and cultural documents that have few equals in our age."--James K. Lyon, University of California, San Diego
Publisher: CUP Archive
Published Date: 1981-03-12
Categories: Literary Criticism
Professor Heller sees Mann as an ironic writer and the late heir of the central tradition of modern German literature.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published Date: 2002-09
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Kurze's book provides fresh and sometimes startling insights into both famous and little-known episodes in Mann's life and into his writing--the only realm in which he ever felt free. It shows how love, death, religion, and politics were not merely themes in "Buddenbrooks, The Magic Mountain, " but were woven into the fabric of his existence. 40 photos.
