Collected Stories

Hardback

Main Details

Title Collected Stories
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Thomas Mann
SeriesEveryman's Library CLASSICS
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:920
Dimensions(mm): Height 210,Width 136
Category/GenreAnthologies
Modern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Classic fiction (pre c 1945)
Short stories
ISBN/Barcode 9781857151961
ClassificationsDewey:833.912 833.912
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Everyman
Imprint Everyman's Library
Publication Date 28 June 2001
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Famous for his novels, Thomas Mann is more accessible through the shorter fictions which span his entire career. The most famous of these stories is one of the earliest. Death in Venice was made into the celebrated Visconti film, but all his mature preoccupations are present in this story: the need for a sense of meaning in existence, the relationship between life and art, the central role of sexual energy and the strange forms it can take, the place of death and disease, the importance of work, the individual's complex relations with his society and the dominant culture. These themes are developed in a series of brilliant stories, may of them very short and displaying the author's talent for macabre comedy. Dr Faustus and Buddenbrooks are already available in Everyman

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.