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  • Death in Venice (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. A Psychological Novella of Artistic Obsession, Forbidden Desire, Classical Beauty, and Decay in Cholera-Stricken Venice

    Translated by H. T. Lowe-Porter ...
    Death in Venice is a tightly wrought novella of artistic obsession, erotic longing, and moral dissolution, set against the luminous yet pestilential atmosphere of early twentieth-century Venice. Thomas Mann's prose combines classical restraint with psychological intensity, tracing the celebrated writer Gustav von Aschenbach's descent from disciplined aesthetic idealism into feverish infatuation ... Read more

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  • Royal Highness

    Enriched edition.

    Translated by A. Cecil Curtis ...
    In "Royal Highness," Thomas Mann crafts a nuanced exploration of the interplay between personal ambition and societal expectations set against the backdrop of a fictional European principality. Mann's prose demonstrates his trademark psychological depth and incisive wit, painting a vivid portrait of aristocratic life while dissecting the intricacies of identity and fidelity. The novella is steeped ... Read more

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  • The Holy Sinner

    by Thomas Mann ...
    Translated by H. T. Lowe-Porter ...
    The ringing of bells, the surging and swelling of bells supra urbem, above the whole city, in its airs overfilled with sound. Bells, bells, they swing and sway, they wag and weave through their whole arc on their beams, in their seats, hundred-voiced, in Babylonish confusion. Slow and swift, blaring and booming—there is neither measure nor harmony, they talk all at once and all together, they ... Read more

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  • Death in Venice

    by Thomas Mann ...
    Death in Venice is a novella written by the German author Thomas Mann and was first published in 1912 as Der Tod in Venedig. The work presents a great writer suffering writer's block who visits Venice and is liberated, uplifted, and then increasingly obsessed, by the sight of a stunningly beautiful youth. Though he never speaks to the boy, much less touches him, the writer finds himself drawn deep ... Read more

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  • Buddenbrooks (Complete)

    by Thomas Mann ...
    “And—and—what comes next?” “Oh, yes, yes, what the dickens does come next? C’est la question, ma très chère demoiselle!” Frau Consul Buddenbrook shot a glance at her husband and came to the rescue of her little daughter. She sat with her mother-in-law on a straight white-enamelled sofa with yellow cushions and a gilded lion’s head at the top. The Consul was in his easy-chair beside her, and the ... Read more

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  • Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Mann Illustrated

    by Thomas Mann ...
    Series Book 11 - Delphi Series Sixteen
    Thomas Mann was the greatest German novelist of the twentieth century and his early masterpieces ‘Buddenbrooks’, ‘Death in Venice’ and ‘The Magic Mountain’ earned him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1929. His style is finely wrought, enriched by humour, symbolism and parody, providing a composition that is subtle and multi-layered. By the end of his life, Mann’s works had already acquired the ... Read more

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  • Death in Venice

    by Mann, Thomas ...
    Death in Venice, novella by Thomas Mann, published in German as Der Tod in Venedig in 1912. A symbol-laden story of aestheticism and decadence, Mann’s best-known novella exemplifies the author’s regard for Sigmund Freud’s writings on the unconscious. Gustav von Aschenbach is a revered author whose work is known for its discipline and formal perfection. ... Read more

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  • Death in Venice

    by Thomas Mann ...
    Translated by Lesley Chamberlain ...
    Series series Pushkin Press Classics
    **A sumptuous new translation of the sublime novella of desire, obsession, and one man’s downfall; another classic from the author of THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN.“Probably the greatest of modern German novelists.” ― The New York Times**One of the pre-eminent works of modern European literature, this enthralling story of desire, beauty and infatuation follows the erudite, respectable writer Gustav ... Read more

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  • Royal Highness

    by Thomas Mann ...
    The Library of Alexandria is an independent small business publishing house. We specialize in bringing back to live rare, historical and ancient Books. This includes manuscripts such as: classical fiction, philosophy, science, Religion, folklore, mythology, history, literature, politics and sacred texts, in addition to Secret and esoteric subjects, such as: occult, freemasonry, alchemy, hermetic, ... Read more

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  • Death in Venice

    by Thomas Mann ...
    Thomas Mann was the 1929 Nobel Prize laureate, known for his series of highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas, noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual. Death in Venice, this tale of forbidden love which has long intrigued the reading public, was his early masterpiece. ... Read more

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  • Buddenbrooks

    Buddenbrooks is a 1901 novel by Thomas Mann, chronicling the decline of a wealthy north German merchant family over the course of four generations, incidentally portraying the manner of life and mores of the Hanseatic bourgeoisie in the years from 1835 to 1877. Mann drew deeply from the history of his own family, the Mann family of Lübeck, and their milieu. It was Mann's first novel, published ... Read more

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  • The Magic Mountain

    by Thomas Mann ...
    Series series Vintage International
    NOBEL PRIZE WINNER • A monumental work of erudition and irony, sexual tension and intellectual ferment, The Magic Mountain is an enduring classic.With this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Thomas Mann rose to the front ranks of the great modern novelists, winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929. The Magic Mountain takes place in an exclusive tuberculosis sanatorium in the Swiss Alps–a ... Read more

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