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Buddenbrooks Summary & Study Guide Description
Buddenbrooks Summary & Study Guide includes comprehensive information and analysis to help you understand the book. This study guide contains the following sections:
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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 grain and related enterprises and over the last several decades, the elder Johann has built the business up to be one of the best in town. His son the Consul Buddenbrook and his wife with their three children, Tony (Antonie), Thomas, and Christian are also present. After the dinner, The Consul discusses a letter that he has received from his half brother and the elder Johann's first son, Gotthold. Johann has cut Gotthold off from...
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