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...
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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,...
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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...
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While working on a carefully guarded film project in 1982, Steven Spielberg invited the versatile writer William Kotzwinkle to Hollywood. Spielberg had read and enjoyed Kotzwinkle's vivid evocation of...
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In the following excerpt, Krispyn analyzes the political and social climate of Germany in 1935-36, commenting on why such writers as Thomas Mann and Arthur Koestler chose to continue writing in exile....
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Hillary Rodham Clinton's lead in the early polls may not be that reassuring if history is any guide. Republican hopeful Rudy Giuliani, however, is sitting pretty.For at least three decades, Republi...
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Strasbourg, France (dpa) - The European Parliament (EP) on
Thursday called for the prompt release of Hu Jia and other jailed
Chinese dissidents and urged China not to use th...
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Democratic Gov. Bill Richardson, poised to sign a bill making New Mexico the 12th state to legalize medical marijuana, said Thursday he realizes his action could become an issue in the presidential...
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Democratic Gov. Bill Richardson, poised to sign a bill making New Mexico the 12th state to legalize medical marijuana, said Thursday he realizes his action could become an issue in the presidential...
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Just blocks from where Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels ordered the destruction of Munich's main synagogue on Kristallnacht, the city is opening an $18 million museum dedicated to the herit...
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Stockholm (dpa) - The Turkish author Orhan Pamuk won the Nobel
Prize for Literature on Thursday, the Swedish Academy announced.
In its citation, the academy said Pam...
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Stockholm (dpa) - The Turkish author Orhan Pamuk won the Nobel
Prize for Literature on Thursday, the Swedish Academy announced,
underlining that a key theme in his work conc...
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Stockholm (dpa) - Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk won the Nobel Prize
for Literature on Thursday, the Swedish Academy announced paying
tribute to the renowned author's exploratio...
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Today is Friday, Sept. 28, the 271st day of 2007. There are 94 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Sept. 28, 1066, William the Conqueror invaded England to claim the English thron...
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President
Bush may be a lame duck and his Republican party a minority in
Congress, but they showed this week that with deft use of the
"Osama card" they can still wield a po...
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Thomas Mann
(Paul) Thomas Mann
Critical Essay by Egbert Krispyn
Early 2008 polls offer important clues
