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050	0	0	_aPT2625.A44 _bB82 1994
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100	1		_aMann, Thomas, _d1875-1955.
240	1	0	_aBuddenbrooks. _lEnglish
245	1	0	_aBuddenbrooks : _bthe decline of a family / _cThomas Mann ; translated from the German by John E. Woods.
250			_a1st Vintage International ed.
260			_aNew York : _bVintage International, _c1994.
300			_a731 p. ; _c21 cm.
520			_aPublisher description: A Major Literary Event: a brilliant new translation of Thomas Mann's first great novel, one of the two for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1929. Buddenbrooks, first published in Germany in 1900, when Mann was only twenty-five, has become a classic of modem literature -- the story of four generations of a wealthy bourgeois family in northern Germany. With consummate skill, Mann draws a rounded picture of middle-class life: births and christenings; marriages, divorces, and deaths; successes and failures. These commonplace occurrences, intrinsically the same, vary slightly as they recur in each succeeding generation. Yet as the Buddenbrooks family eventually succumbs to the seductions of modernity -- seductions that are at variance with its own traditions -- its downfall becomes certain. In immensity of scope, richness of detail, and fullness of humanity, Buddenbrooks surpasses all other modem family chronicles; it has, indeed, proved a model for most of them. Judged as the greatest of Mann's novels by some critics, it is ranked as among the greatest by all. Thomas Mann was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1929.
650		0	_aFamily _vFiction.
651		0	_aGermany _vFiction.
655		7	_aDomestic fiction. _2lcsh
700	1		_aWoods, John E. _q(John Edwin)
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