A Companion to the Works of Thomas Mann

Book Overview

Sixteen new, carefully focused essays on the prose works of one of the great writers of modernity.

Thomas Mann is among the greatest of German prose writers, and was the first German novelist to reach a wide English-speaking readership since Goethe. Novels such as Buddenbrooks, The Magic Mountain, and Doktor Faustus attest to his mastery of subtle, distanced irony, while novellas such as Death in Venice reveal him at the height of his mastery...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571134050
• ISBN13: 9781571134059
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: Camden House (NY)
• Length: 363 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"