Buddenbrooks

Discover Mann's Nobel Prizewinning semi-autobiographical and sweeping family epic.The Buddenbrook clan is everything you'd expect of a nineteenth-century German merchant family - wealthy, esteemed, established. Four generations later, a tide of twentieth-century modernism has gradually disintegrated the bourgeois values on which the Buddenbrooks built their success.In this, Mann's first novel, his astounding, semi-autobiographical family epic, he portrays the transition of genteel Germanic stability to a very modern uncertainty.'Perhaps the first great novel of the 20th century' New York Times

ISBN:	9780749386474
Publisher:	Random House
Imprint:	Vintage Classics
Published date:	29 Jul 1996
DEWEY:	833.912
DEWEY edition:	20
Language:	English
Sales rank:	24894
Number of pages:	604
Weight:	630g
Height:	197mm
Width:	131mm
Spine width:	33mm

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