Sign-In
Cart
Buddenbrooks
Hardcover
General FictionLiterary Fiction
ISBN13: 9781025321950
Publisher: Tradd Street Press
Published: Feb 14 2026
Pages: 734
Weight: 2.63
Height: 1.56 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Buddenbrooks is a monumental family saga that chronicles the gradual decline of a wealthy merchant family in LÃ1/4beck over the course of four generations. Written by Nobel laureate Thomas Mann, this masterpiece of literary realism explores the tension between traditional bourgeois values and the shifting social and economic landscape of nineteenth-century Germany.
The narrative follows the family's transition from prosperity and social prestige to spiritual and physical decay. Through the lives of various family members, Mann meticulously depicts the psychological struggles of individuals caught between their sense of duty to the family legacy and their own personal desires or artistic temperaments. As the firm's fortunes wane, the characters grapple with illness, personal failures, and the slow loss of their social standing.
Renowned for its rich detail and profound philosophical depth, Buddenbrooks is a poignant meditation on time, inheritance, and the inevitable erosion of traditions. It remains one of the most significant works of world literature, offering a timeless examination of the human condition and the fragility of legacy and success.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you may see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.
This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.
As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Also from
Mann, Thomas
London After Midnight: A New Reconstruction Based on Contemporary Sources (hardback)
Mann, Thomas
Hardcover
London After Midnight: An English Translation of the 1929 French Novelization of the Lost Lon Chaney Film
Mann, Thomas
Paperback
The Hesse-Mann Letters: The Correspondence of Hermann Hesse and Thomas Mann 1910-1955
Hesse, Hermann
Mann, Thomas
Paperback
Death in Venice, Tonio Kroger, and Other Writings: Thomas Mann
Mann, Thomas
Bloom, Harold Ed
Paperback
Horror and Mystery Photoplay Editions and Magazine Fictionizations, Volume II (hardback)
Mann, Thomas
Hardcover
Moby Dick Oder Der Wal: Ein Klassiker Der Weltlitteratur Und Das Beliebteste Seeabenteuer
Melville, Herman
Paperback
Financing Information Services: Problems, Changing Approaches, and New Opportunities for Academic and Research Libraries
Spyers-Duran, Peter
Mann, Thomas
Hardcover
The Little Gentleman Friedemann - Bilingual Edition: Der Kleine Herr Friedemann
Mann, Thomas
Paperback
Also in
General Fiction
Elizabeth Spencer: Novels & Stories (Loa #344): The Voice at the Back Door / The Light in the Piazza / Knights and Dragons / Stories
Spencer, Elizabeth
Hardcover
Anniversaries, Volume 2: From a Year in the Life of Gesine Cresspahl, April 1968-August 1968
Johnson, Uwe
Paperback
Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: Short Stories, Prose, and Diary Excerpts
Plath, Sylvia
Paperback
Selected Writings: Robert Musil: Young Torless, Three Women, the Perfecting of a Love, and Other Writings
Musil, Robert
Agee, Joel
Paperback