Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann

Buddenbrooks by Thomas MannDiscover Mann's Nobel Prizewinning semi autobiographical and sweeping family epic. The Buddenbrook clan is everything you'd expect of a nineteenth century German merchant family wealthy, esteemed, established. Four generations later, a tide of twentieth century modernism has gradually disintegrated the bourgeois values on which the Buddenbrooks built their success. In this, Mann's first novel, his astounding, semi autobiographical family epic, he

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