num_pages: 604
description: "A very great book... of an incomparable depth, insight, creative fullness, structural perfection." - The NationThomas Mann's first major novel is the story of four generations of the Buddenbrooks, a wealthy family in northern Germany: Johann, the patriarch, a member of the local merchant nobility; the Consul, who maintains the appearance of the family's prosperity; Thomas and Christian, who preside over the collapse of the family firm; and Hanno, the weak, dreamy, ineffectual artist, who symbolizes the family's extinction through overrefinement. With its brilliant accretion of the domestic details of middle-class life - births and christenings, marriages, divorces, and deaths - Buddenbrooks masterfully captures the richness and complexity of human experience.Translated from the German by H. T. Lowe-Porter.Thomas Mann received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1929.
language: English
title: Buddenbrooks
titlecomplete: Buddenbrooks
characters: Hanno Buddenbrook, Ida Jungmann, Lebrecht Kröger, Clara Buddenbrook, Gotthold Buddenbrook, Christian Buddenbrook, Sievert Tiburtius, Edmund Pfühl, Elisabeth Buddenbrook, Jean Jacques Hoffstede, Erika Grünlich, Justus Kröger, Jakob Kröger, Alois Permaneder, Johann Buddenbrook, Morten Schwarzkopf, Sesame Weichbrodt, Julie Hagenström, Buddenbrooks, Klothilde, Thomas Buddenbrook, Antonie Buddenbrook, Kai Mölln, Bendix Grünlich, Gerda Arnoldsen, Hugo Weinschenk, Jürgen Kröger, Armgard von Schilling, Hermann Hagenström, Siegismund Gosch, Peter Döhlmann
genres: Germany, 20th Century, Historical Fiction, Nobel Prize, Historical, Novels, Literature, German Literature, Classics, Fiction
ratings_count: 28974
places: Lübeck, Germany
publisher: Vintage International (NY)