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The story of four generations of a wealthy bourgeois family in northern Germany facing the advent of modernity; in an uncertain new world, the family’s bonds and traditions begin to disintegrate. As Mann charts the Buddenbrooks’ decline from prosperity to bankruptcy, from moral and psychic soundness to sickly piety, artistic decadence, and madness, he ushers the listener into a world of stunning vitality, pieced together from births and funerals, weddings and divorces, recipes, gossip, and earthy humor.

The Ultimate Classics Collection: Volume One is a continent-hopping, century-spanning collection of 10 of the greatest classic novels ever written, from British, Irish, American, and German authors, read by a cast of incredible narrators including Joanne Froggatt, Stephen Fry, Jonathan Keeble, David Rintoul, and many more.

American democracy was never supposed to give the nation a president like Donald Trump. We have never had a president who gave rise to such widespread alarm about his lack of commitment to the institutions of self-government, to the norms democracy requires, and to the need for basic knowledge about how government works. We have never had a president who raises profound questions about his basic competence and his psychological capacity to take on the most challenging political office in the world.

In this second volume subtitled ‘Young Joseph’, Mann shifts his focus to Joseph’s formative years, moving towards the novel’s ultimate conclusion where he is imprisoned by his brothers and sold into slavery.

A towering figure in the pantheon of twentieth-century literature, Thomas Mann has often been perceived as a dry and forbidding writer—"the starched collar," as Bertolt Brecht once called him. But in fact, his fiction is lively, humane, sometimes hilarious. In these fresh renderings of his best short work, award-winning translator Damion Searls casts new light on this underappreciated aspect of Mann's genius.

Congress is the first branch of government in the American system, write Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein, but now it is a broken branch, damaged by partisan bickering and internal rancor. The Broken Branch offers both a brilliant diagnosis of the cause of Congressional decline and a much-needed blueprint for change, from two experts who understand politics and revere our institutions, but believe that Congress has become deeply dysfunctional.

El propio Thomas Mann advierte que esta novela trata sobre «la pasión como desequilibrio y degradación». Gustav Aschenbach, «arroyo de cenizas» en alemán, es un escritor maduro que goza de reconocimiento. Llega a Venecia en busca de inspiración, pero también de llenar sus días con reflexiones estéticas en un entorno idílico. En el hotel coincide con Tadzio, un joven de polaco que se encuentra de vacaciones con su familia. El muchacho se convierte en objeto de deseo y adoración; un amor ideal e imposible basado en la contemplación estética y que llevará a Aschenbach a renunciar a todo, incluso a sí mismo.

Hyperpartisanship has gridlocked the American government. Congress' approval ratings are at record lows, and both Democrats and Republicans are disgusted by the government's inability to get anything done. In It's Even Worse Than It Looks, Congressional scholars Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein present a grim picture of how party polarization and tribal politics have led Congress - and the United States - to the brink of institutional failure.

A stunningly beautiful youth and the city of Venice set the stage for Thomas Mann’s introspective examination of erotic love and philosophical wisdom.

Publicada en 1901, Los Buddenbrook narra la decadencia de una familia burguesa alemana a lo largo del siglo XIX. En un gran fresco que va desde 1835, cuando aún se recordaban las guerras napoleónicas, hasta 1877, poco antes de la fundación del Imperio Alemán, Mann no solo captura un descenso social, sino también las fuerzas históricas que trastocaron la existencia decimonónica y alumbraron las incertidumbres de los tiempos modernos. Basada en su propia novela familiar, la historia anuncia además temas esenciales de su obra posterior.

Als „Hühnerhund-Bastard" wird er geführt, als sein Herr ihn eines Tages wegen unerklärlicher Blutungen einer Untersuchung unterziehen lässt. Bauschan, so wurde der Hund genannt, als man ihn damals, als kleines Häuflein Elend, von einer Bergbäuerin erstand, ist allerdings eine überaus robuste Natur. Das zeigt sich vor allem, wenn er mit seinem Herrn in „seinem" Revier in den Isarauen spazieren geht.

Während einer Schaffenskrise beschließt der erfolgreiche Schriftsteller Gustav von Aschenbach zu einer Reise nach Venedig aufzubrechen. Ihm ist klargeworden, dass er nicht wirklich nach Hause zurück wollte, da er sich unverhofft in einen Jüngling verliebt hat, der mit seiner polnischen Familie im selben Hotel wohnt. Selbst als nicht länger verheimlicht werden kann, dass die indische Cholera inzwischen auch die Lagunenstadt erreicht und bereits zahlreiche Opfer gefordert hat, erwägt Aschenbach, seine Reise vorzeitig zu beenden.

Der Schriftsteller Tonio Kröger ist zwischen der Verachtung für die Banalität des bürgerlichen Lebens und der Sehnsucht nach dem gewöhnlichen menschlichen Glück hin- und hergerissen. Schon als Schüler sucht er beständig die Anerkennung seines Freundes Hans Hansen, der, als Sohn aus reichem Hause, ein Ideal verkörpert, das das genaue Gegenteil seiner selbst ist. Später findet er in der russischen Künstlerin Lisaweta Iwanowna eine Freundin und Vertraute.

Waiter by day, man about Paris by night; the young and good looking Felix Krull has created for himself a personality to charm and deceive the world of wealth. When the Marquis de Venosta makes him a proposal that he can't refuse, the young Felix finds himself on the pathway that will elevate him into the world of riches.

Congressional scholars Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein identify two overriding problems that have led Congress—and the United States—to the brink of institutional collapse. But they offer a panoply of useful ideas and reforms, endorsing some solutions, like greater public participation and institutional restructuring, while debunking others, like independent or third-party candidates. Above all, they call on the media as well as the public to focus on the true causes of dysfunction rather than just throwing the bums out every election cycle.

The first novel in the exciting Zombie Dawn series that follows the outbreak of a deadly Zombie plague and the people that are left, fighting to survive. Follow the story of six individuals around the world in their fight to survive in the first few days of the Zombie Outbreak.

Nella Germania devastata alla fine della Seconda guerra mondiale, il professor Serenus Zeitblom scrive la biografia dell'amico d'infanzia Adrian Leverkühn, un geniale musicista che in cambio dell'anima ha ottenuto dal diavolo ventiquattro anni di furore creativo. Reinterpretando in chiave moderna il mito di Faust, Thomas Mann narra una vicenda che per molti aspetti sembra anticipare il destino della Germania, travolta dalla follia hitleriana e dalla distruzione.

Primeiro romance de Thomas Mann, publicado em 1901, este livro monumental acompanha a saga dos Buddenbrook, uma família de comerciantes abastada do norte da Alemanha. Quatro gerações são retratadas na crônica familiar inspirada na linhagem do próprio escritor e situada numa cidade com todas as características de Lübeck, a terra natal dos Mann.

O volume traz duas novelas magistrais do jovem Thomas Mann, complementadas por ensaios do crítico Anatol Rosenfeld. A morte em Veneza (1912), aqui na tradução de Herbert Caro, é uma das novelas exemplares da moderna literatura ocidental. A história do escritor Gustav von Aschenbach, que viaja a Veneza para descansar e lá se vê hipnotizado pela beleza do jovem polonês Tadzio, mais tarde daria origem ao notável filme homônimo do diretor italiano Luchino Visconti, de 1971.

O romance fáustico de Thomas Mann em nova edição revista, com tradução de Herbert Caro e posfácio de Jorge de Almeida. Último grande romance de Thomas Mann, Doutor Fausto foi publicado em 1947. O escritor fez uma releitura moderna da lenda de Fausto, na qual a Alemanha trava um pacto com o demônio — uma brilhante alegoria à ascensão do Terceiro Reich e à renúncia do país a sua própria humanidade. O protagonista é o compositor Adrian Leverkühn, um gênio isolado da cultura alemã, que cria uma música radicalmente nova e balança as estruturas da cena artística da época.