Thomas Mann
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Paul Thomas Mann was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. His highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and nov
Mann in 1929
House of the Mann family in Lübeck (Buddenbrookhaus), where Thomas Mann grew up; now a family museum
The family lived in this villa in Munich from 1914 to 1933. Partially destroyed in World War II, it was later reconstructed.
The family country house in Bad Tölz, Bavaria
The Magic Mountain
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The Magic Mountain is a German novel written by Thomas Mann, published in November 1924 about a young and aspiring engineer Hans Castorp. While staying in the secluded world of a high-altitude sanator
Thomas Mann
…part of the Hanseatic class. He portrayed both his family and the influential class in his first novel, Buddenbrooks (1901). Other major novels include The Magic Mountain (1924), the tetralogy Joseph and His Brothers (1933–1943), and Doctor Faustus (1947). He also wrote short stories and novellas, including Death in…
First German edition (1924)
A picture of mountain scenery at Davos, the novel's Alpine setting
Mann in 1926
Parzival: knights ascend to the Grail Castle