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The Buddenbrooks

The Buddenbrooks

Mann, Thomas
Mitchell, Mike
Robertson, Ritchie

Paperback

Series: Oxford World's Classics

Classic FictionGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $15.99

ISBN10: 0198843232
ISBN13: 9780198843238
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Apr 8 2026
Pages: 656
Weight: 1.01
Height: 1.11 Width: 5.30 Depth: 7.77
Language: English
'All his powers were in decline; the only thing growing stronger in him was the conviction that all this could not last much longer, that his demise was imminent.'

The Buddenbrooks (1900) was Thomas Mann's first major success. It draws on his own family history and on his vivid memories of growing up in the commercial town of Lübeck in North Germany. The narrative traces the decline of a wealthy, established merchant family, from their height during the last decades of the nineteenth century, to the onset of uncertainty in the modern world. The novel displays Mann's interest in decline as a psychological process, where artistic sensibility weakens the ruthless business instincts that founded the Buddenbrooks' prosperity. At the centre is the reluctant businessman Thomas Buddenbrook, a tragic figure who conscientiously dedicates himself to a way of life that gradually undermines him.

Mike Mitchell's new English translation is accompanied by Ritchie Robertson's introduction and explanatory notes, illuminating the cultural, philosophical, and personal context of the novel's composition.

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