Death in Venice
A "brilliant . . . perfectly nuanced translation" (The Boston Globe) of Thomas Mann's greatest short works
A Penguin Classic
Featuring his world-famous masterpiece, "Death in Venice," this collection of Nobel laureate Thomas Mann's stories and novellas reveals his artistic evolution. In a widely acclaimed translation that restores the controversial passages that were censored from the original English version, "Death in Venice" tells about a ruinous quest for love and beauty amid degenerating splendor. Gustav von Aschenbach, a successful but lonely author, travels to the Queen of the Adriatic in search of an elusive spiritual fulfillment that turns into his erotic doom. Spellbound by a beautiful Polish boy, he finds himself fettered to this hypnotic city of sun-drenched sensuality and eerie physical…
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May 1, 1999Thomas Mann (1875–1955) was from Germany. At the age of 25, he published his first novel, Buddenbrooks. In 1924, The Magic Mountain was published, and five years later, Mann was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Following the rise of the Nazis to power, he left Germany for good in 1933 to live in Switzerland and then in California, where he wrote Doctor Faustus (first published in the United States in 1948).
Buddenbrooks
Thomas Mann
Death in Venice & Other Stories
Thomas Mann
Thomas Mann
Thomas Mann
Thomas Mann
Damion Searls
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (Revised Edition)
Jesse Andrews
Royal Highness
Thomas Mann
The Magic Mountain
Thomas Mann; Translated by John E. Woods; Introduction by A. S. Byatt
Joseph and His Brothers
Thomas Mann; Translated and Introduced by John E. Woods
Doctor Faustus
Thomas Mann, translated by John Woods
Death in Venice
Thomas Mann
Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man
Thomas Mann
Death in Venice
Thomas Mann