num_pages: 591
description: This is a study of decadence among the merchant families of Hamburg at the end of the 19th century. The novel is based on Mann's own experience as the son of a German merchant prince, but goes beyond his own experience in its sweep.
language: English
title: Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family
titlecomplete: Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family 
characters: Hanno Buddenbrook, Jakob Kröger, Sievert Tiburtius, Thomas Buddenbrook, Clara Buddenbrook, Gerda Arnoldsen, Alois Permaneder, Hermann Hagenström, Peter Döhlmann, Kai Mölln, Edmund Pfühl, Christian Buddenbrook, Johann Buddenbrook, Erika Grünlich, Jürgen Kröger, Hugo Weinschenk, Gotthold Buddenbrook, Sesame Weichbrodt, Jean Jacques Hoffstede, Ida Jungmann, Siegismund Gosch, Bendix Grünlich, Lebrecht Kröger, Klothilde, Morten Schwarzkopf, Antonie Buddenbrook, Julie Hagenström, Elisabeth Buddenbrook, Justus Kröger, Buddenbrooks, Armgard von Schilling
genres: Historical Fiction, German Literature, Nobel Prize, Historical, Classics, Novels, Germany, Fiction, Literature, 20th Century
ratings_count: 28994
places: Germany, Lübeck
publisher: Penguin Books Ltd