Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1929, Thomas Mann was honored for a body of work that began with his first novel,Buddenbrooks, and whose other milestones includedThe Magic MountainandDoktor Faustus. These three novels are brought to life in this outstanding 7-disc collection, which pays tribute to Mann’s most celebrated and famous works.BuddenbrooksAs seen on PBS Great Performances. A stimulating adaptation of Mann’s most famous novel and one of the most widely read German novels in the world,Buddenbrooksis the sweeping tale of the rise and fall of a wealthy merchant family torn between family loyalty and personal freedom.Doktor Faustus  Driven by a single-minded search for a totally new musical idiom, composer Adrian Leverkühn, makes a pact with the devil with a very high price: the total renunciation of love and the gradual deterioration of the mind and body.The Magic Mountain  Hans Castorp, son of a distinguished Hamburg family, spends seven years in a Swiss sanatorium. Drawn to the hermetic society, he receives an erotic and philosophical initiation but abruptly leaves at the launch of the Great War to learn true life experience and responsibility.