Ebook {Epub PDF} Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family by Thomas Mann

 · "Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family," published in , served as my beach reading last month. In this translation it was an easy read. Mann's autobiographical first novel, though lengthy, is a light, historically interesting, character-driven piece of 19th century realism.  · Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family - Thomas Mann - Google Books. A Major Literary Event: a brilliant new translation of Thomas Mann's first great novel, one of 5/5(1). (Book from books) - Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family, Thomas Mann Buddenbrooks is a novel by Thomas Mann, chronicling the decline of a wealthy north German merchant family over the course of four generations, incidentally portraying the manner of life and mores of the Hanseatic bourgeoisie in the years from to Mann drew deeply from the history of his /5(K).

Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann, , Knopf, Distributed by Random House edition, This epic, sub-titled 'The Decline of a Family', was Mann's first novel, published in It traces the gradual downfall of a wealthy family over four generations in the city of Lubeck. The novel is widely regarded as a classic portrait of bourgeois. A patrician family of Luebeck merchants droops into oblivion in "Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family," a lackluster adaptation of Thomas Mann's monumental novel. Big-name German cast is aces. Buddenbrooks (German: [ˈbʊdn̩ˌbʁoːks] ()) is a novel by Thomas Mann, chronicling the decline of a wealthy north German merchant family over the course of four generations, incidentally portraying the manner of life and mores of the Hanseatic bourgeoisie in the years from to Mann drew deeply from the history of his own family, the Mann family of Lübeck, and their milieu.

Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family - Thomas Mann - Google Books. A Major Literary Event: a brilliant new translation of Thomas Mann's first great novel, one of the two for which he was awarded. A Major Literary Event: a brilliant new translation of Thomas Mann's first great novel, one of the two for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in Buddenbrooks, first published. Buddenbrooks (Paperback) Published November 1st by Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag. Paperback, pages. Author (s): Thomas Mann. ISBN: (ISBN ) Edition language: German.