Buddenbrooks

<''I bear within me the seed, the rudiments, the possibility of life''s capacities and endeavours. Where might I be, if I were not here?''

Buddenbrooks is one of the original, and greatest, of family chronicles: the story of four generations of a wealthy and bourgeois German family as they experience all the anguish and rewards of human life: births, marriages, divorces, deaths, madness, bankruptcy and artistic achievement. Richly realized and profoundly moving, Thomas Mann''s first great novel was published when he was only twenty-five, and was one of the two books for which he won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1929.

John E. Woods''s elegant translation is widely acclaimed as the best available English version.<>

About the author

Thomas Mann (Author)
Thomas Mann (1875-1955) is regarded by many as the greatest German novelist of the 20th century. Mann's first major novel, Buddenbrooks, sold over a million copies in Germany alone, before Hitler banned and burned it. Mann fled Germany and spent the latter part of his life living in Switzerland and America. He wrote many essays as well as novels, and won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1929.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Mann
• Assisted by: Woods John E. (Translation)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Release: 08.01.2026
• EAN: 9780241785409
• ISBN: 978-0-241-78540-9
• No. of pages: 864
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 35 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; FICTION / Sagas, FICTION / Literary, Germany, FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Narrative theme: Social issues, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, c 1900 to c 1909, FICTION / World Literature / Germany / 20th Century, Saga fiction (family / generational sagas), Biographical fiction / autobiographical fiction, Classic fiction: general and literary, Relating to middle socioeconomic groups / status, FICTION / Biographical & Autofiction