Add this copy of Buddenbrooks to cart. $6.61, poor condition, Sold by Hay-on-Wye Booksellers rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Hereford, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1989 by Penguin Books Ltd.
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Poor. Heavily worn cover/spine with tanning/creases/marks/scuffs/some tears. Inscription at front. Tanning to pages & creases at edges. Text good. B-format paperback. 592 p. Twentieth Century Classics S. .
Add this copy of Buddenbrooks: the Decline of a Family to cart. $21.44, good condition, Sold by BARNABY rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Oxford, OXFORDSHIRE, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1957 by Penguin Books.
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Good Condition. One or two light scuffs and bumps to cover. Slight page tanning, but text is otherwise clean and unmarked. Otherwise, in good overall condition. Publisher's note: The first novel by Thomas Mann is considered an outstanding achievement in German fiction. The novel is a chronicle of the material and spiritual decline of a prosperous patrician family. Drawing from autobiographical material, as well as from the clear influences of Schopenhauer and Wagner, Mann provides penetrating psychological insights into individual characters and German society in general. As the novel opens, both Johann Buddenbrook, Sr., the patriarch, and his son Johann, Jr. (Consul Buddenbrook) are exemplary bearers of the family's solid and rational tradition. However, symptoms of decadence begin to appear in the consul's children: the daughter, Toni, is aimless and fickle; Christian is an outright ne'er-do-well; and Thomas, who takes over the family business, has a repressed potential for decadence, manifested by his occasional attraction to art and philosophy and his inability to keep the family fortune from declining. In Thomas's son, Hanno, the symbolic connection between art and decadence and the symbolic antithesis between art and life culminate. Hanno is frail and sickly, fond of music and filled with creative longings. He dies at the age of fifteen, a victim of typhoid fever, bringing the family line to an end Size: 19.7 x 12.8 x 2.3 cm. 586 pp. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Fiction; Belletristische Darstellung; Familie; Families; Families Fiction; Familles Romans, nouvelles, etc; Fiction; German fiction; Germany; Germany Fiction; Geschichte 1835-1877; Kaufmann; Lübeck; Roman allemand; Romance Alemao; ISBN: 0140181385. ISBN/EAN: 9780140181388. Add. Inventory No: 240310SWG008003.
