Buddenbrooks
Thomas Mann author John E Woods translator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Publishing:8th Jan '26
£14.99
This title is due to be published on 8th January, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
‘I bear within me the seed, the rudiments, the possibility of life's capacities and endeavours. Where might I be, if I were not here?’
Buddenbrooks is one of the original, and greatest, of family chronicles: the story of four generations of a wealthy and bourgeois German family as they experience all the anguish and rewards of human life: births, marriages, divorces, deaths, madness, bankruptcy and artistic achievement. Richly realized and profoundly moving, Thomas Mann’s first great novel was published when he was only twenty-five, and was one of the two books for which he won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1929.
John E. Woods’s elegant translation is widely acclaimed as the best available English version.
Perhaps the first great novel of the 20th century * New York Times *
His masterpiece * Los Angeles Times *
One of the greatest things a novel can do is to create a world - and this is one of the most richly evoked and inhabited of all -- Michael Frayn * Week *
A remarkable achievement…. In Woods’s sparkling translation, the reader encounters a work that is closer in style, vocabulary, idiom, and tone to the original. * The New York Times Book Review *
Wonderfully fresh and elegant…. Essential reading for anyone who wishes to enter Mann’s fictional universe. * Los Angeles Times *
ISBN: 9780241785409
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 35mm
Weight: 500g
864 pages