Dimensions
129 x 198 x 44mm
Thomas Mann's first novel, 'Buddenbrooks', is drawn from his own life and experience.
Subtitled 'The Decline of A Family' his story of a prosperous Hanseatic merchant family and their gradual disintegration is also an extraordinary portrayal of the transition from the stable bourgeois life of the nineteenth century to a modern uncertainty.
Published in 1902, 'Buddenbrooks' was already a classic in Germany before it was banned and burned by Hitler. In it Mann's psychology is exact and incisive, his ironic and leisurely style already developed.
