num_pages: 756
description: It is 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 reader into a world of stunning vitality, pieced together from births and funerals, weddings and divorces, recipes, gossip, and earthy humor. Includes unique illustrations.
language: German
title: Buddenbrooks: Verfall einer Familie
titlecomplete: Buddenbrooks: Verfall einer Familie
characters: Julie Hagenström, Jean Jacques Hoffstede, Morten Schwarzkopf, Lebrecht Kröger, Peter Döhlmann, Ida Jungmann, Clara Buddenbrook, Alois Permaneder, Christian Buddenbrook, Gotthold Buddenbrook, Erika Grünlich, Sievert Tiburtius, Sesame Weichbrodt, Gerda Arnoldsen, Klothilde, Johann Buddenbrook, Thomas Buddenbrook, Hermann Hagenström, Kai Mölln, Jürgen Kröger, Armgard von Schilling, Elisabeth Buddenbrook, Justus Kröger, Bendix Grünlich, Hanno Buddenbrook, Edmund Pfühl, Siegismund Gosch, Antonie Buddenbrook, Jakob Kröger, Hugo Weinschenk, Buddenbrooks
genres: Classics, Historical, Nobel Prize, Novels, German Literature, Germany, Historical Fiction, Literature, 20th Century, Fiction
ratings_count: 28978
places: Germany, Lübeck
publisher: S. Fischer