Buddenbrooks

Name: Buddenbrooks
Author: Thomas Mann

by Thomas Mann

Multigenerational novel tracing a merchant family's rise and decline in 19th-century Germany

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Thomas Mann

German novelist and Nobel laureate who explored the tension between bourgeois life and artistic decadence with extraordinary intellectual depth. Buddenbrooks, The Magic Mountain, and the Joseph tetralogy are monuments of modern literature.

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