Buddenbrooks Summary
Thomas Mann

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Buddenbrooks Summary

Buddenbrooks is a novel about the decline of a family. The story chronicles four generations of a German merchant family and their decline over that period.

The novel begins in 135 with the entire family hosting other prominent townspeople for a housewarming dinner at their new home on Meng Strasse. The head of the family is Johann Buddenbrook, the son of the original founder of the firm. The family business is in...

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Thomas Mann Biographies (3)

(Paul) Thomas Mann

10,767 words, approx. 36 pages

Thomas Mann is one of the most celebrated German writers in history, and he experienced this phenomenal acclaim within his own lifetime. In 1938, the year he left Europe for exile in the United States... Read more

Thomas Mann

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The German novelist and essayist Thomas Mann (1875-1955) was perhaps the most influential and representative German author of his time.Born in the free Hanseatic city of Lübeck on the Baltic Sea,... Read more

Thomas Mann

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Biography EssayThomas Mann is one of the most celebrated German writers in history, and he owes part of this fame to the United States, where he held citizenship when he died in 1955 at the age of eig... Read more

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