With this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Thomas Mann rose to the front ranks of the great modern novelists, winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929.

Mann's handling of these concerns in this story of a middle-aged German writer, torn by his passion for a Polish youth met on holiday in Venice, resulted in a work of great psychological intensity and tragic power.

With this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Thomas Mann rose to the front ranks of the great modern novelists, winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929.

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.

The NYRB Classics edition includes two additional essays by Mann: ¡°Thoughts in Wartime¡± (1914), translated by Mark Lilla and Cosima Mattner; and ¡°On the German Republic¡± (1922), translated by Lawrence Rainey.

"John E. Woods is revising our impression of Thomas Mann, masterpiece by masterpiece." —The New Yorker "Doctor Faustus is Mann's deepest artistic gesture.

The headliner of this volume, ¡°Chaotic World and Childhood Sorrow¡± (in its first new translation since 1936)—a subtle masterpiece that reveals the profound emotional significance of everyday life—is Mann¡¯s tender but sharp-eyed ...

Presents the correspondence of Thomas and Heinrich Mann

Recounts the enchanted career of the con man extraordinaire Felix Krull--a man unhampered by the moral precepts that govern the conduct of ordinary people.