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Joseph and His Brothers by Thomas Mann
Category: Fiction
Thomas Mann regarded his monumental retelling of the biblical story of Joseph as his magnum opus. He conceived of the four parts - The Stories of Jacob, The Young Joseph, Joseph in Egypt and Joseph the Provider - as a unified narrative, a 'mythological novel' of Joseph's fall into slavery and his rise t ...Show more
Lotte in Weimar by Thomas Mann
Category: Classic Fiction
Thomas Mann's meditation on the power of literary representation and the tyranny of the writer's imagination, published in Vintage Classics for the first time. Mann's novel, written some 150 years after Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther, follows Lotte Kestner, Goethe's real-life heroine, as she make ...Show more
Mann: Tonio Kroger by Thomas Mann; J. White (Volume Editor)
Category: Fiction | Series: German Texts
A title in the Bristol Classical Press German Texts series, in German with English notes, vocabulary and introduction. Thomas Mann (1875-1955), was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1929, and "Tonio Kroger" occupies a central position in his spiritual and artistic development. A study of youth, ...Show more
Mario and the Magician by Thomas Mann
Category: Classics
Mann s short stories explore his abiding interest in the split nature of humanity and the discordance of the world it inhabits. In A Man and his Dog , domestic tempests are symbols of the muddle of humanity. In The Black Swan , the demands of intellect clash with physical desires. And in Mario and the M ...Show more
One Nation after Trump - A Guide for the Perplexed, the Disillusioned, the Desperate, and the Not-Yet Deported by E. J. Dionne Jr.; Norman J. Ornstein; Thomas E. Mann
Category: History
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND WASHINGTON POST BESTSELLERA call to action from three of Washington's premier political scholar-journalists, One Nation After Trump offers the definitive work on the threat posed by the Trump presidency and how to counter it. American democracy was never supposed to give ...Show more
Reflections of a Nonpolitical Man by Thomas Mann; Walter D. Morris (Translator); Mark Lilla (Introduction by)
Category: Philosophy and Religion
A classic, controversial book exploring German culture and identity by the author of Death in Venice and The Magic Mountain, now back in print. When the Great War broke out in August 1914, Thomas Mann, like so many people on both sides of the conflict, was exhilarated. Finally, the era of decadence ...Show more
Royal Highness by Thomas Mann
Category: Fiction
Royal Highness, is a classical and a rare book, that has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole ...Show more
THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN by MANN THOMAS (TRAN) WOODS JOHN E
Category: Fiction
In this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Mann uses a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps–a community devoted exclusively to sickness–as a microcosm for Europe, which in the years before 1914 was already exhibiting the first symptoms of its own terminal irrationality. The Magic Mountain is a monumental work of e ...Show more
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
Category: Fiction
With this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Thomas Mann rose to the front ranks of the great modern novelists, winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929. "The Magic Mountain" takes place in an exclusive tuberculosis sanatorium in the Swiss Alps-a community devoted to sickness that serves as a fictiona ...Show more
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics
Mann's best-known novel illustrating the cultural misgivings and misanthropy that gave rise to the First World War. A novel rich in philosophy, historical literacy and present anxiety.