Thomas Mann

The Ultimate Classics Collection: Volume One is a continent-hopping, century-spanning collection of 10 of the greatest classic novels ever written, from British, Irish, American, and German authors.

It was The Magic Mountain (Der Zauberberg) that confirmed Thomas Mann as a Nobel prizewinner for literature and rightly so, for it is undoubtedly one of the great novels of the 20th century. Its unusual story - it opens with a young man visiting a friend in a tuberculosis sanatorium in the...

In der Lungenheilanstalt „Einfried" begegnet der erfolglose Schriftsteller Detlev Spinell der jungen Gattin des Geschäftsmannes Anton Klöterjahn, die nach der Geburt des gemeinsamen Sohnes zusehends gesundheitlich abbaut.

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....

Dem Leben so fern: der Klassiker als Mammuthörspiel. Der junge Hans Castorp will seinen lungenkranken Vetter eigentlich nur drei Wochen im Schweizerischen...

Buddenbrooks was first published in Germany in 1901, when Mann was only twenty-six. It has become a classic of modern literature and was cited as the overarching reason for Mann being awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature....

The Thomas Mann Collection includes unabridged recordings of Thomas Mann's 3 greatest works of fiction in one audiobook....

Thomas Mann's last great novel, first published in 1947 and now newly rendered into English by acclaimed translator John E. Woods, is a modern reworking of the Faust legend, in which Germany sells its soul to the Devil. Mann's protagonist, the composer Adrian Leverkühn, is the flower of German...

In der Lebensgeschichte Adrian Leverkühns – der fiktiven Romanbiographie eines Komponisten, der sich dem Teufel verschreibt – fasst Thomas Mann alle...

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, Young Joseph, Joseph in Egypt, and Joseph the Provider—as a unified narrative, a "mythological novel" of Joseph's fall into slavery and his...

A morte em Veneza, publicada em 1912, é uma das mais reconhecidas obras de Thomas Mann. Na versão em audiolivro, Guilherme Weber conduz os leitores pelos canais dessa novela misteriosa, onde amor e morte se encontram.

Bei seinen Tagebüchern herrscht durchaus ebenfalls diese ganz eigene Stimmung, allerdings überwiegend in einer starken Reduzierung der Gedankengänge auf ziemlich kurze, nicht ausgearbeitete spontane Sätze und unmittelbare Eindrücke, was dem Tagebuch-Genre geschuldet ist.

In this third volume of Thomas Mann’s monumental retelling of the biblical story, Joseph in Egypt follows Joseph after he is sold by his jealous brothers to Ishmaelite traders. They bring him to Egypt, where he’s eventually purchased by Potiphar. Joseph's intelligence, charisma, and...

Nella Germania devastata alla fine della Seconda guerra mondiale, il professor Serenus Zeitblom scrive la biografia dell'amico d'infanzia...

A stunningly beautiful youth and the city of Venice set the stage for Thomas Mann’s introspective examination of erotic love and philosophical wisdom....

"Es kenne mich die Welt, aber erst, wenn alles tot ist." (Thomas Mann) Vom Frühstücksei bis zum Cocktail bei Präsident Roosevelt, vom...

In Thomas Mann's novella Death in Venice, a distinguished writer's holiday from the burdens of his work turns out very differently from what he expected. By means of the story, Mann explores the relationships between disciplined intellect and ungoverned passion....

Bei seinen Tagebüchern herrscht durchaus ebenfalls diese ganz eigene Stimmung, allerdings überwiegend in einer starken Reduzierung der Gedankengänge auf ziemlich kurze, nicht ausgearbeitete spontane Sätze und unmittelbare Eindrücke, was dem Tagebuch-Genre geschuldet ist.

In seinem Exilroman „Lotte in Weimar" nähert sich Thomas Mann dem von den Nazis zum „aus dem Schoße des Volkes geborenem Genie" stilisierten Dichter Johann Wolfgang von Goethe als Mensch.

In der Stilistik Thomas Manns liegt dieses markant-prägnant-charmante Element, das einen sofort in seinen Bann zieht.