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ISBN: 9780099428657 - Death in Venice and Other Stories Death in Venice and Other Stories
Thomas Mann

ISBN10: 0099428652  ISBN13: 9780099428657
Publisher: Vintage
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 03 Aug 2001
Y03312009 "Death in Venice" is a story of obsession. Gustave von Aschenbach is a successful but ageing writer who travels to Venice for a holiday. One day, at dinner, Aschenbach notices an exceptionally beautiful young boy who is staying with his... More
ISBN: 9780749386429 - The Magic Mountain The Magic Mountain
Thomas Mann

ISBN10: 0749386428  ISBN13: 9780749386429
Publisher: Vintage
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 29 Jul 1996
Hans Castorp is 'a perfectly ordinary, if engaging young man' when he goes to visit his cousin in an exclusive sanatorium in the Swiss Alps. What should have been a three week trip turns into a seven year stay. Hans Castorp is 'a perfectly... More
ISBN: 9781857152890 - The Magic Mountain The Magic Mountain
Thomas Mann

ISBN10: 1857152891  ISBN13: 9781857152890
Publisher: Everyman Everyman's Library
Edition: New edition
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 29 Apr 2005
The Magic Mountain takes place in an exclusive tuberculosis sanatorium in the Swiss Alps - a community devoted to sickness that serves as a fictional microcosm for Europe in the days before the First World War. To this hermetic and otherworldly... More
ISBN: 9780749386474 - Buddenbrooks Buddenbrooks
Thomas Mann

ISBN10: 0749386479  ISBN13: 9780749386474
Publisher: Vintage
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 29 Jul 1996
This story of a prosperous Hanseatic family and their gradual disintegration is also a portrayal of the transition from the stable bourgeois life of the 19th century to a modern uncertainty. Thomas Mann's first novel, Buddenbrooks, is drawn from... More
ISBN: 9780749386627 - Mario and the Magician and Other Stories Mario and the Magician and Other Stories
Thomas Mann

ISBN10: 0749386622  ISBN13: 9780749386627
Publisher: Vintage
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 28 Oct 1996
Using settings as varied as Germany, Italy, the Holy Land and the Far East, these stories explore a theme which always preoccupied Thomas Mann - "the two faces of things". Written between 1918 and 1953, they offer an insight into his development... More
ISBN: 9780749386573 - Doctor Faustus Doctor Faustus
Thomas Mann

ISBN10: 0749386576  ISBN13: 9780749386573
Publisher: Vintage
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 28 Oct 1996
This is the story of Adrian Leverkuhn, whose extraordinary career is charted, from his precocious childhood to his tragic death. His revelation of the horrifying price he had to pay for his achievement highlights Mann's vast theme: the discord... More
ISBN: 9781857152876 - Joseph and His Brothers Joseph and His Brothers
Thomas Mann

ISBN10: 1857152875  ISBN13: 9781857152876
Publisher: Everyman Everyman's Library
Edition: New edition
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 10 Mar 2005
This remarkable new translation of the Nobel Prizewinner's great masterpiece is a major literary event. Thomas Mann regarded his monumental retelling of the biblical story of Joseph as his magnum opus. He conceived of the four parts ... More
ISBN: 9781857150803 - Doctor Faustus Doctor Faustus
Thomas Mann

ISBN10: 1857150805  ISBN13: 9781857150803
Publisher: Everyman Everyman's Library
Edition: New edition
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 04 Jun 1992
A portrayal of genius possessed, through the biography of the composer Adrian Leverkuhn, narrated by his friend Zeitblom in the years 1943-45, as Germany faces ruin. More
ISBN: 9781857151077 - Buddenbrooks Buddenbrooks
Thomas Mann

ISBN10: 1857151070  ISBN13: 9781857151077
Publisher: Everyman Everyman's Library
Edition: New edition
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 15 Sep 1994
This is a study of decadence among the merchant families of Hamburg at the end of the 19th century. The novel is based on Mann's own experience as the son of a German merchant prince, but goes beyond his own experience in its sweep. More
ISBN: 9781440311468 - Metal Artist's Workbench Metal Artist's Workbench
Thomas Mann

ISBN10: 1440311463  ISBN13: 9781440311468
Publisher: F&W Publications Inc North Light Books
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 30 Dec 2011
Provides readers with the information they need to know to use the jeweller's saw by deconstructing the skill into two components: understanding exactly how the tool works and then how to actually use it for maximum efficiency. This book also... More