Buddenbrooks
(Author) Thomas MannDiscover Mann's Nobel Prizewinning semi-autobiographical and sweeping family epic. The Buddenbrook clan is everything you'd expect of a nineteenth-century German merchant family - wealthy, esteemed, established. Four generations later, a tide of twentieth-century modernism has gradually disintegrated the bourgeois values on which the Buddenbrooks built their success. In this, Mann's first novel, his astounding, semi-autobiographical family epic, he portrays the transition of genteel Germanic stability to a very modern uncertainty. 'Perhaps the first great novel of the 20th century' New York Times
Thomas Mann
Thomas Mann was a German novelist and Nobel Prize winner known for his masterpiece, "The Magic Mountain." His intricate and philosophical writing style explored themes of morality, psychology, and human nature. Mann's contributions to literature include his profound insights into the complexities of the human condition and his ability to capture the essence of modern society.