Buddenbrooks
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4.4 • 11 Ratings
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- £8.99
Publisher Description
Wealthy, esteemed, and deeply rooted in tradition, the Buddenbrook family epitomises nineteenth-century German bourgeois values.
But as the tides of modernity and change sweep through Europe, their once-stable world begins to crumble, along with the tenets on which the Buddenbrooks built their success. Spanning four generations, this semi-autobiographical family epic records 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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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
A superior new translation of Mann's 1901 saga about four generations of an affluent German family.
Customer Reviews
Great book shame about the printing errors
Some examples.
“And to be furnished with the sinews of their spiritual warfare”.
“Thank you for the consideration you snow me in asking for my consent”.
“Both brothers had their lathes with them - for the lawyer had married, some years since...”
“Thomas let his eye rove discreedy over the heads of the two standing outside...”
“And though the hideous circumstances made this seem like mockery, yet Hanno felt for the bird a curious mature of fear and affection...”
“A cold rain was failing, and a high wind drove it against the window panes.”
“I’ll get you shut up, I’ll ruin you - I’ll rain you, you understand?”
“Have you no money Christian? Then I’ll end it to you.”