Buddenbrooks
Автор:
Thomas MannЖанр:
Дата добавления:
2024-10-24Язык книги:
EnglishКол-во страниц:
229
Description
The Buddenbrooks have worked hard to make their name, and the eponymous firm of Johann Buddenbrook is widely known for its trading prowess. But despite trappings like an imposing town house on Meng Street, under the surface the cracks are showing: Johann’s first son isn’t living up to the status the family desires, and there are more problems to come.
Buddenbrooks is a biographical novel spanning over forty years and four generations, and charts the dwindling fortunes of the Buddenbrooks through their lives in an unnamed north German town, albeit one heavily modeled on Thomas Mann’s hometown of Lübeck. It was Mann’s first novel and was published when he was...
