Buddenbrooks
The definitive translation of 'perhaps the first great novel of the 20th century' (New York Times)
‘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 dynasty as they experience all the anguish and rewards of human life: births, marriages, divorces, deaths, madness, artistic achievement and bankruptcy. Thomas Mann’s first novel is a richly realized, profoundly moving saga of ‘the decline of a family’ as it succumbs to the forces of modernity. Published when he was only twenty-five, it was one of the two books for which he won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1929.
Translated by John E. Woods
PRODUCT DETAILS :
| ISBN : 9780241785409 | |
| BY (AUTHOR) Mann, Thomas, TRANSLATED BY Woods, John E. | |
| PUBLISHER : Penguin Books Ltd | PUBLICATION DATE : July 23, 2026 |
| COUNTRY OF PUBLICATION : United Kingdom | IMPRINT : Penguin Classics |
| LANGUAGE : English | AGE : Relating to middle socioeconomic groups / status |
| PRODUCT FORM : Paperback / softback | |
WEIGHT : 500 g
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The definitive translation of 'perhaps the first great novel of the 20th century' (New York Times)
‘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 dynasty as they experience all the anguish and rewards of human life: births, marriages, divorces, deaths, madness, artistic achievement and bankruptcy. Thomas Mann’s first novel is a richly realized, profoundly moving saga of ‘the decline of a family’ as it succumbs to the forces of modernity. Published when he was only twenty-five, it was one of the two books for which he won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1929.
Translated by John E. Woods
PRODUCT DETAILS :
| ISBN : 9780241785409 | |
| BY (AUTHOR) Mann, Thomas, TRANSLATED BY Woods, John E. | |
| PUBLISHER : Penguin Books Ltd | PUBLICATION DATE : July 23, 2026 |
| COUNTRY OF PUBLICATION : United Kingdom | IMPRINT : Penguin Classics |
| LANGUAGE : English | AGE : Relating to middle socioeconomic groups / status |
| PRODUCT FORM : Paperback / softback | |
WEIGHT : 500 g
PRODUCT CATEGORY :
Fiction & Related items
