Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family

Hardback

Main Details

Title Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Thomas Mann
SeriesEveryman's Library CLASSICS
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:732
Dimensions(mm): Height 210,Width 135
Category/GenreModern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Classic fiction (pre c 1945)
ISBN/Barcode 9781857151077
ClassificationsDewey:833.912 833.912
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Everyman
Imprint Everyman's Library
Publication Date 15 September 1994
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Thomas Mann's first great novel, written at the age of 25, is an epic study of decadence among the merchant families of Hamburg at the end of the nineteenth century. The novel is based on Mann's own experience as the son of a German merchant prince, but it goes far beyond his own experience in its sweep and comprehensiveness.

Author Biography

Thomas Mann (1875-1955) was the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. His first major novel, Buddenbrooks, had sold over a million copies in Germany alone before it was banned and burned by Hitler.