Buddenbrooks
The Decline of a Family
by Thomas Mann
Recommended by Ernest Hemingway and Corey Robin
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Recommended by 3 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books and Fiction.
A Major Literary Event: a brilliant new translation of Thomas Mann's first great novel, one of the two for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1929.Buddenbrooks, first published in Germany in 1900, when Mann was only twentyfive, has become a classic of modem literature the story of four generations of a wealthy bourgeois famil...
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Ernest Hemingway
“@BradburySlocum I reread Mrs. Dalloway. I read Death in Venice and Buddenbrooks. I'm reading Emma. I've loved all of them. But they're also for a book project.”
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