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Discover a new way to read classics with Quick Read. This Quick Read edition includes both the full text and a summary for each chapter. - Reading time of the complete text: about 3 hours - Reading time of the summarized text: 6 minutes "Death in Venice" is a 1912...
Mario and the Magician is one of Mann's most political stories. Mann openly criticizes fascism, a choice which later became one of the grounds for his exile to Switzerland following Hitler's rise to power. The magician, Cipolla, is analogous to the looming specter of...
Thomas Mann regarded his monumental retelling of the biblical story of Joseph as his magnum opus. The four parts--The Stories of Jacob, Young Joseph, Joseph in Egypt, and Joseph the Provider--are a novel telling of Joseph's fall into slavery and his rise to be lord over...
The Holy Sinner explores a subject that fascinated Thomas Mann to the end of his life - the origins of evil and evil's connection with magic. Here Mann uses a medieval legend about "the exceeding mercy of God and the birth of the blessed Pope Gregory" - illuminating the...
Thomas Mann regarded his monumental re-telling of the biblical story of Joseph as his magnum opus, telling of Joseph's fall into slavery and his rise to be lord over Egypt. As Joseph is saved from the well and sold to Egypt, he adopts a new name, Osarseph, replacing...
As Seen on BBC Between the CoversA brief visit to a Swiss sanatorium becomes a life-altering seven-year odyssey.Hans Castorp arrives at a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps to visit his cousin, intending to stay for just three weeks. But when he falls ill, he remains and is...
Royal Highness is one of Thomas Mann's most powerful stories of a decaying stratified society rejuvenated by modern forces.For HisRoyal Highness Prince Klaus Heinrich the modus Vivendi means servitude to ducal functions, which he graces with unthinking obedience..till...
Wealthy, esteemed, and deeply rooted in tradition, the Buddenbrook family epitomises nineteenth-century German bourgeois values.But as the tides of modernity and change sweep through Europe, their once-stable world begins to crumble, along with the tenets on which the...
A selection of work taken from his highly acclaimed collection Stories of a Lifetime by one of the greatest writers of the 20th Century.In elegant prose, Mann explores such eternal themes as: individuals forced into the extremes of their existence, isolation and the...
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 village.Mann's short stories explore his abiding...
To unlock his full creative potential, Adrian Leverkühn makes a lethal pact with nature and intentionally contracts syphilis.A brilliant young composer, Adrian believes that the disease-induced madness will fuel his genius. But while his music reaches new heights, his...
The information world has undergone drastic changes since the publication of the 3rd edition ofThe Oxford Guide to Library Research in 2005, and Thomas Mann, a veteran reference librarian at the Library of Congress, has extensively revised his text to reflect those...
In December 1945 Thomas Mann wrote a famous letter to Adorno in which he formulated the principle of montage adopted in his novel Doctor Faustus. The writer expressly invited the philosopher to consider, with me, how such a work and I mean Leverkhns work could more or...
A tale of genius in which Thomas Mann explores the artist's relation to life.First published in 1912, Death in Venice tells how Gustave von Aschenbach, a writer utterly absorbed in his work, arrives in Venice as the result of a 'youthfully ardent thirst for distant...
Le premier but de ce cahier est de proposer un ensemble de témoignages, d'analyses, de documents et d'éléments critiques permettant à un lecteur de langue française de mieux pénétrer dans l'univers créateur de Thomas Mann. C'est ainsi que l'on présente préalablement...
Thomas Mann, prix Nobel de littérature 1929, opposant de la première heure au nazisme, s’adresse depuis l’Amérique à ses compatriotes dans 56 messages radiophoniques où il les avertit de la réalité de la guerre en cours et des sombres lendemains qui les attendent s’ils...
En janvier 1926, Thomas Mann séjourne à Paris pendant neuf jours, où il est accueilli comme un grand « émissaire de l’esprit allemand ». Il y rencontre des personnalités singulières, prononce des discours, noue des relations. Filant d’un rendez-vous à l’autre à travers...
Ces morceaux choisis de Schopenhauer sont pré-cédés d’une introduction de l’écrivain Thomas Mann, dont l’œuvre est tout entière marquée par sa lecture du philosophe allemand.
Roman traduit de l’allemand, annoté et postfacé par Claire de Oliveira Écrite entre 1912 et 1924, La Montagne magique est l’un des romans majeurs du vingtième siècle. Cette œuvre magistrale radiographie une société décadente et ses malades, en explorant les mystères de...
Das Handbuch der kommunalen Wissenschaft und Praxis (HKWP) ist das führende Standardwerk im Bereich der Kommunalwissenschaften. Mit seinem Konzept, den aktuellen Forschungsstand mehrerer geisteswissenschaftlicher Fächer mit dem empirischen Wissen der Praxis zu...
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