Buddenbrooks : the decline of a family
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New York : Vintage International, 1994.
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Glencarlyn - Adult Fiction
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Published
New York : Vintage International, 1994.
Format
Book
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731 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English

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Buddenbrooks, first published in Germany in 1900, when Mann was only twenty-five, has become a classic of modem literature - the story of four generations of a wealthy bourgeois family in northern Germany. With consummate skill, Mann draws a rounded picture of middle-class life: births and christenings; marriages, divorces, and deaths; successes and failures. These commonplace occurrences, intrinsically the same, vary slightly as they recur in each succeeding generation. Yet as the Buddenbrooks family eventually succumbs to the seductions of modernity - seductions that are at variance with its own traditions - its downfall becomes certain. In immensity of scope, richness of detail, and fullness of humanity, Buddenbrooks surpasses all other modem family chronicles; it has, indeed, proved a model for most of them. Judged as the greatest of Mann's novels by some critics, it is ranked as among the greatest by all. Thomas Mann was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1929.
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Translated from German.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Mann, T., & Woods, J. E. (1994). Buddenbrooks: the decline of a family (1st Vintage International ed.). Vintage International.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955 and John E. Woods. 1994. Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family. Vintage International.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955 and John E. Woods. Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family Vintage International, 1994.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Mann, Thomas, and John E Woods. Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family 1st Vintage International ed., Vintage International, 1994.

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