ISBN 9780749386474
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Buddenbrook
The Decline of a Family
Who it's for: Readers of classic European literature and family sagas
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
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- Nobel Prize-winning novel by Thomas Mann
- Semi-autobiographical first novel
- Spans four generations of a merchant family
- Depicts the erosion of bourgeois values
- Portrays transition from stability to modern uncertainty
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What is the book about?
It follows the Buddenbrook family, a wealthy 19th-century German merchant clan, across four generations as their fortunes and values decline under the pressures of modernism.
Is this Thomas Mann's first novel?
Yes, it is Mann's first novel and is semi-autobiographical, drawing on his own family history.
Did it win any awards?
The book is described as Nobel Prize-winning, referring to Mann's Nobel Prize in Literature, which was partly awarded for this novel.
What is the historical setting?
It is set in 19th-century Germany, focusing on a merchant family and the societal changes of the time.
How long is the book?
The edition has 624 pages.