Buddenbrooks
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4.6 • 9 Ratings
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- £7.99
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- £7.99
Publisher Description
Discover 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
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
A superior new translation of Mann's 1901 saga about four generations of an affluent German family.
Customer Reviews
Great book shame about the printing errors
Some examples.
“And to be furnished with the sinews of their spiritual warfare”.
“Thank you for the consideration you snow me in asking for my consent”.
“Both brothers had their lathes with them - for the lawyer had married, some years since...”
“Thomas let his eye rove discreedy over the heads of the two standing outside...”
“And though the hideous circumstances made this seem like mockery, yet Hanno felt for the bird a curious mature of fear and affection...”
“A cold rain was failing, and a high wind drove it against the window panes.”
“I’ll get you shut up, I’ll ruin you - I’ll rain you, you understand?”
“Have you no money Christian? Then I’ll end it to you.”