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The story of four generations of a wealthy bourgeois family in northern Germany facing the advent of modernity; in an uncertain new world, the family’s bonds and traditions begin to disintegrate. As Mann charts the Buddenbrooks’ decline from prosperity to bankruptcy, from moral and psychic soundness to sickly piety, artistic decadence, and madness, he ushers the listener into a world of stunning vitality, pieced together from births and funerals, weddings and divorces, recipes, gossip, and earthy humor.

Il primo grande romanzo di Thomas Mann racconta la storia di una famiglia tedesca dell'Ottocento che dopo anni di prosperità è esposta a una tragica decadenza: le basi di un patrimonio e di una potenza che sembravano incrollabili sono sgretolate da una forza ostinata e segreta. Opera di ispirazione autobiografica, questo romanzo, capolavoro della letteratura europea, esprime compiutamente la concezione estetica e politica dello scrittore tedesco, il suo rimpianto per una mitica e solida borghesia, la coscienza della crisi di un mondo e di valori.

Gregorius synes fra fødslen dømt til en uhellig skæbne: Han er nemlig barn af et incestuøst søskendeforhold og ender, trods sine forsøg på at hæve sig over sit ophav, med selv at reproducere samme synd. Ganske uvidende om deres familieforhold, bliver han gift og får børn med sin biologiske mor. Men selv denne grotesk-nedarvede, skyldløse synd ændrer ikke ved, at Gregorius er den guddommeligt udvalgte, der ad de mest snørklede stier som pave skal føre kirken ind i en ny højtid. "Den Udvalgte" er et sent mesterværk af den aldrende Mann.

Publicada en 1901, Los Buddenbrook narra la decadencia de una familia burguesa alemana a lo largo del siglo XIX. En un gran fresco que va desde 1835, cuando aún se recordaban las guerras napoleónicas, hasta 1877, poco antes de la fundación del Imperio Alemán, Mann no solo captura un descenso social, sino también las fuerzas históricas que trastocaron la existencia decimonónica y alumbraron las incertidumbres de los tiempos modernos. Basada en su propia novela familiar, la historia anuncia además temas esenciales de su obra posterior.

In Thomas Mann's novella Death in Venice, a distinguished writer's holiday from the burdens of his work turns out very differently from what he expected. By means of the story, Mann explores the relationships between disciplined intellect and ungoverned passion, and between decaying age and youthful beauty, against a background that resonates today in a time of pandemics. It was first published in German (as Der Tod in Venedig) in 1912.

How can democracy be renewed and defended today? A collaboration of the Thomas Mann House, the Goethe Institute, Wunderbar Together, and the Los Angeles Review of Books.

When the Great War broke out in August 1914, Thomas Mann, like so many people on both sides of the conflict, was exhilarated. Finally, the era of decadence that he had anatomized in Death in Venice had come to an end; finally, there was a cause worth fighting and even dying for, or, at least when it came to Mann himself, writing about. Mann immediately picked up his pen to compose a paean to the German cause. Soon after, his elder brother and lifelong rival, the novelist Heinrich Mann, responded with a no less determined denunciation. 

Hans Castorp is, on the face of it, an ordinary man in his early 20s, on course to start a career in ship engineering in his home town of Hamburg, when he decides to travel to the Berghof Santatorium in Davos. The year is 1912 and an oblivious world is on the brink of war. Castorp’s friend Joachim Ziemssen is taking the cure and a three-week visit seems a perfect break before work begins. But when Castorp arrives he is surprised to find an established community of patients, and little by little, he gets drawn into the closeted life and the individual personalities of the residents.

Roman povestvuet o vstreche stareyushchego Gete s podrugoy ego yunosti Sharlottoy Buff, stavshey proobrazom geroini "Stradaniy yunogo Vertera", prinesshih ih sozdatelyu mirovuyu slavu. Iz slov raznyh lyudey - samoy Sharlotty, sekretarya Gete, ego syna Avgusta fon Gete, zhiteley Veymara - vyrisovyvaetsya slozhnyy, mnogogrannyy, poroy protivorechivyy obraz znamenitogo pisatelya i myslitelya.

The second novel in the exciting Zombie Dawn series that follows the outbreak of a deadly zombie plague and the people who are left, fighting to survive. This book continues the story one year on from Zombie Dawn Outbreak. The world is now a very different place, far from the disorganized and desperate struggle to simply survive an hour. The remnants of humanity have formed new communities with their own unique approaches to survival in a zombie-dominated world.

The first novel in the exciting Zombie Dawn series that follows the outbreak of a deadly Zombie plague and the people that are left, fighting to survive. Follow the story of six individuals around the world in their fight to survive in the first few days of the Zombie Outbreak.

Congress is the first branch of government in the American system, write Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein, but now it is a broken branch, damaged by partisan bickering and internal rancor. The Broken Branch offers both a brilliant diagnosis of the cause of Congressional decline and a much-needed blueprint for change, from two experts who understand politics and revere our institutions, but believe that Congress has become deeply dysfunctional.

Una descripcion morbosa de la decadencia. La Montana Magica fue la obra que logro para Thomas Mann, el insigne escritor aleman, el Premio Nobel. En esa historia, situada en un sanatorio de tuberculosos en los altos de una montana, el autor creo un increíble microcosmos, reflejo de lo que el consideraba la decadencia de su patria y de toda la civilizacion europea.

"Tonio, Sie sind hart wie Stein, wenn Sie treffen wollen." Agnes E. Meyer. Sie war seine Gönnerin, er war ihr Briefpartner von 1937 an bis zu seinem Tod 1955. Obwohl Thomas Mann von der nahezu grenzenlosen Bewunderung erheblich profitierte, die ihm Agnes E. Meyer entgegenbrachte, sah er ihre Hilfe bisweilen als störende Einmischung in sein Leben. Im Gegenzug erwartete Agnes E. Meyer ein gewisses Maß an Aufmerksamkeit und nahm für sich das Recht in Anspruch, ihn zu kritisieren und ihm Ratschläge zu erteilen.

Eigentlich sollte es ein angenehmer Familienurlaub im italienischen Touristenort Torre di Venere werden. Stattdessen aber wird die Atmosphäre gleich zu Beginn durch die offenkundige Unfreundlichkeit der Italiener gegenüber den ausländischen Urlaubern getrübt. "Geradeso merkwürdig und spannend, geradeso unbehaglich, kränkend und bedrückend"...

Thomas Mann hatte zeitlebens ein ungetrübtes Verhältnis zum Weihnachtsfest. Das kann man nicht nur in seinen Werken nachlesen...

Ein schüchterner, Gedichte schreibender Junge aus der besseren Gesellschaft wünscht sich, von seinen Schulkameraden geliebt und beachtet zu werden - vergeblich. Die Jahre vergehen, der künstlerische Erfolg als Schriftsteller stellt sich ein, aber die Sehnsucht bleibt... Heinz Sommer lässt in seiner Hörspielbearbeitung die berühmteste Novelle Thomas Manns auf drei Ebenen spielen.

Hyperpartisanship has gridlocked the American government. Congress' approval ratings are at record lows, and both Democrats and Republicans are disgusted by the government's inability to get anything done. In It's Even Worse Than It Looks, Congressional scholars Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein present a grim picture of how party polarization and tribal politics have led Congress - and the United States - to the brink of institutional failure.

Felix Krull, der überaus anziehende und charmante Sohn eines bankrotten Sektfabrikanten, entwickelt schon im Kindesalter Vorlieben für das diebische Gewerbe. Weder Schokolade, noch Liebesbeweise entgehen seiner Aneignungslust - und da die Welt betrogen werden will, betrügt er sie! Als ein Rollentausch mit dem Marquis de Venosta seinen Aufstieg vom Hotelpagen zum Adligen ermöglicht, stehen ihm alle Türen offen, was er nur zu geschickt zu nutzen weiß.

German short stories began in the late 18th century as brief, beautifully written moral fables. In the following century, style evolved toward realism in parallel with that of other European literature. From the lofty idealism of Goethe to the searing verisimilitude of Mann, German writers of all styles have left us some of the most arresting profiles of the human condition ever conceived.