Death in Venice and Other Stories

This volume contains a generous selection of the short fiction Thomas Mann published in the years 1897 to 1912, including the novella Death in Venice.

List of contents

• Introduction


• Note on the Translations


• Select Bibliography


• Chronology


• Death in Venice


• Tristan


• Tonio Kröger


• Little Herr F.


• Tobias Mindernickel


• The Road to the Cemetery


• Gladius Dei


• At the Prophet's


• The Blood of the Volsungs


• Explanatory Notes

About the author

Nicola Luckhurst is an academic and translator. A specialist in modernism, her publications include Science and Structure in Proust's A la recherche (2000), Virginia Woolf in Camera (2001), (as editor) The European Reception of Virginia Woolf (2002), and a translation of Freud's Studies in Hysteria (2004).

Ritchie Robertson retired in 2021 as Schwarz-Taylor Professor of German in the University of Oxford. For the greater part of his career he was Fellow and Tutor of St John's College, Oxford. He is now an Emeritus Fellow of the Queen's College. His many books include Kafka: Judaism, Politics, and Literature (1985), The Enlightenment: The Pursiuit of Happiness, 1680-1790 (2020) and German Political Tragedy: The Machiavellian Plot and the Necessary Crime (2024), as well as books on Kafka and Goethe in OUP's Very Short Introductions series. Since 2004, he has been a Fellow of the British Academy.

Product details

• Authors: Editor, Thomas Mann
• Assisted by: Luckhurst Nicola (Translation), Robertson Ritchie (Translation)
• Publisher: Oxford Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 08.04.2026
• EAN: 9780198850076
• ISBN: 978-0-19-885007-6
• Weight: 1 g
• Series: Oxford World's Classics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > German linguistics / literary studies; FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Classic fiction: general and literary, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form