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Thomas Mann
Author Thomas Mann offers a fascinating reconstruction based on his transcription of a rediscovered 11,000-word fictionization first published in Boy’s Cinema (1928) that may resolve the conflicts between previous versions.
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Royal Highness, is a classical and a rare book, that has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions…
Now considered a lost film, surviving production stills, a Photoplay Edition novel, scripts, and other memorabilia give some feel for the actual film, London After Midnight, but their varying plot…
El propio Thomas Mann advierte que esta novela trata sobre la pasion como desequilibrio y degradacion .
Gustav Aschenbach, arroyo de cenizas en aleman, es un escritor maduro que goza…
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Written by a Noble Prize-winning author, this careful depiction of a decaying society rejuvenated by modern forces illustrates in fable what Mann regarded as a universal truth–that ripeness and death…
Celebrated novella of a middle-aged German writer’s tormented passion for a Polish youth met on holiday in Venice, and its tragic consequences. New translation with extensive commentary.
Thomas Mann’s real masterpiece is his sprawling snowbound epic of 1924, The Magic Mountain … simply one of the greatest novels ever written. - The Guardian
Bashan And I, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book…
Un compositor envejecido y fatigado descubre, en medio de la decadente belleza veneciana, el espontaneo atractivo de un angelical adolescente. Publicada en 1914, esta novela cimentaria la fama de Mann…
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A fascinating analysis of the film magazines in their larger context as cultural artifacts of bygone eras.
The moving story of Thomas Mann’s relationship with his spirited German short-haired pointer. The life of a dog is a simple and strangely marvelous thing; and that finally may be…
Explores such eternal themes as: individuals forced into the extremes of their existence, isolation and the artist’s tentative position in the harsh world, and the realization of one’s true nature.
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This is an annotated catalogue of over 500 horror and mystery photoplay editions and magazine fictionalisations assembled over four decades. Most photoplay editions and magazine fictionalisations were published from the…
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…
A witty rogue reflects on his experiences in European society and offers his impressions of the existing social order.
""Der Tod in Venedig"" ist eine Novelle des deutschen Schriftstellers Thomas Mann, die im Jahr 1913 ver??????ffentlicht wurde. Die Geschichte handelt von dem alternden Schriftsteller Gustav von Aschenbach, der sich…
Thomas Mann, fascinated with the concept of genius and with the richness of German culture, found in Johann Wolfgang von Goethe the embodiment of the German culture hero. Mann’s novelistic…
Relates the discussions of the politics of the body, male inscriptions of the feminine, and discourse about and of women.
Death in Venice, novella by Thomas Mann, published in German as Der Tod in Venedig in 1912. A symbol-laden story of aestheticism and decadence, Mann's best-known novella exemplifies the author's…
Death in Venice written by Thomas Mann, is a novella that delves into the psychological and existential themes of desire, decay, and the pursuit of beauty. Set in Venice during…
Una reinterpretacion del gran mito inmortalizado por Goethe.
Un reflejo de la sociedad moderna.
La ultima gran novela de Thomas Mann es una reinterpretacion del mito de Fausto. Su protagonista…
This is a study of decadence among the merchant families of Hamburg at the end of the 19th century. The novel is based on Mann’s own experience as the son…
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Two works by one of the 20th-century’s great writers. In Death in Venice, a renowned author finds himself infatuated by a young boy–an attraction that proves to have fatal consequences…
A new translation of Mann’s classic story of four generations of a wealthy bourgeois family in northern Germany captures the triumphs and tragedies, successes and failures, relationships, loves, and ordinary…
Using settings as varied as Germany, Italy, the Holy Land and the Far East, these stories explore a theme which always preoccupied Thomas Mann - the two faces of things…
Presents a careful depiction of a decaying, stratified society rejuvenated by modern forces that illustrates in fable what the author regarded as a universal truth - that ripeness and death…
Discover Thomas Mann’s comic novel of deception and misplaced confidence - back in print for the first time in over twenty years. Waiter by day, man about Paris by night;
A sanitorium in the Swiss Alps reflects the societal ills of pre-twentieth-century Europe, and a young marine engineer rises from his life of anonymity to become a pivotal character in…
A new translation of the Nobel laureate’s famous classic follows the story of successful aging writer Gustave von Aschenbach, whose search for spiritual fulfillment in Venice leads to erotic ruin…
With this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Thomas Mann rose to the front ranks of the great modern novelists, winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1929.
Francis Nenik
This volume tells the story of the Thomas Mann House in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood in Los Angeles–the house in which the legendary German writer and his family passed their…
Professor or Dr. Stanley Corngold (Princeton University, USA)
An evocative account of German aemigraes in America in the wake of Nazism, centered around Thomas Mann’s early exile in Princeton and his encounters with a brilliant group of intellectuals…
Dr. David Horton (Saarland University, Germany)
Thomas Mann owes his place in world literature to the dissemination of his works through translation. Indeed, it was the monumental success of the original English translations that earned him…
Bringing together scholars from diverse disciplines and countries, Thomas Mann and Shakespeare is the first book-length study to explore the always fascinating, if sometimes disturbing, connections between Shakespeare and Mann…
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Rudolf Binion
Focusing on the interplay of text and subtext , this book is a comparative study of 12 works of fiction broadly representative of the Western canon. Its aim is to…
Cengage Learning Gale
A study guide for Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain , excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Novels for Students series. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study…
Michael Fischer
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2004 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Neuere Deutsche Literatur, Note: 2, Ruhr-Universitat Bochum (Germanistisches Institut), Veranstaltung: Hauptseminar: Thomas Manns Erzahlungen, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Thomas Manns Erzahlungen regen…
Hermann Kurzke
Provides fresh insights into both famous and little-known episodes in Thomas Mann’s life and into his writing - the only realm in which he ever felt free. This book shows…
Michael Maar
Germany’s most gifted literary critic on the critical discussion of Nobel Prize laureate Thomas Mann.
Jacques Darmaun
This book-series, initiated in 1992, has an interdisciplinary orientation; it is published in English and German and comprises research monographs, collections of essays and editions of source texts dealing with…
Rodney Symington
Thomas Mann’s novel The Magic Mountain presents a panorama of European society in the first two decades of the 20th century and depicts the philosophical and metaphysical dilemmas facing people…
Heike Breitenbach
Thomas Mann entnahm den Romanstoff der Josephstetralogie der hebraischen Bibel. Ein Blick auf die Arbeitsmaterialien sowie auf die umfangreiche Korrespondenz mit judischen Gelehrten zeigt ausserdem Manns Interesse an der hebraischen…
Antje Rausch
Diese Arbeit geht von der begrundeten Annahme aus, dass dem Zauberberg von Thomas Mann ein okkulter Schriftsinn zugrundeliegt, dessen Erarbeitung und Analyse sowohl die Elaboration eines neuen Menschenbildes im Roman…