Buddenbrooks The Decline of a Family by Thomas MannVintage | 1994 | ISBN: 0679752609 | 736 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
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. With consummate skill, Mann draws a rounded picture of middle-class life: births and christenings; marriages, divorces, and deaths; successes and failures. These commonplace occurrences, intrinsically the same, vary slightly as they recur in each succeeding generation. Yet as the Buddenbrooks family eventually succumbs to the seductions of modernity – seductions that are at variance with its own traditions – its downfall becomes certain. Thomas Mann was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1929.