Buddenbrooks
By: translated from the German by H. T. Lowe-Porter.
Contributors: Lowe-Porter, H. T. 1876-1963
Publisher: A. A. Knopf
Published: 1938
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng; ger
Number of pages: 604
Subjects: Family -- Fiction; Germany -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Description: Thomas Mann's landmark work chronicles the decline of a German merchant clan. Ranging from 1835 to 1877, the semi-autobiographical tale explores not only the fate of an individual family but also the crisis of an entire social class along with moral and philosophical themes related to duty, self-expression, and appearance versus reality.