Thomas Mann
Subtitle: Life as a Work of Art. A Biography
Contributors: Leslie Willson (Translator)
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: August 12, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 752
ISBN-13: 9780691070698
Subjects: Biography: general; Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -; Biography/Autobiography; Biography; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; German; Novelists, German; Literary; Biography & Autobiography / Literary; Comparative Literature; Mann, Thomas; 20th century; 1875-1955; Mann, Thomas,
First sentence: Thomas Mann, or to be precise, Paul Thomas Mann, was born on June 6, 1875, in Lubeck and baptized as a Protestant on June 11 in St. Mary's Church.
Description: "This vivid, sometimes tragic, and often humorous literary biography brings to life as never before the extraordinary talent and complex person who was Thomas Mann.".

"Engrossing vignettes enable us to enter Mann's life and work from unique angles. We meet the difficult, even unsavory private man: hypochondriac and nervous, narcissistic and vainglorious, isolated and greedy for love, shy and often ungenerous. But we are also introduced to a man who lived an eventful life, was capable of great kindness, loved dogs, doted on his daughters, and listened to Jack Benny."--BOOK JACKET.