BUDDENBROOKS, THE DECLINE OF A FAMILY by THOMAS MANN; TRANSLATED BY H.T. LOWE-PORTER - 1930

USA: MARTIN SECKER, 1930 GREEN COVER, WEAR TOP FRONT COVER, LIGHT FADING SPINE. TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT. ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN LONDON. Buddenbrooks is a 1901 novel by Thomas Mann, chronicling the decline of a wealthy north German merchant family over the course of four generations, incidentally portraying the manner of life and mores of the Hanseatic bourgeoisie in the years from 1835 to 1877. Mann drew deeply from the history of his own family, the Mann family of Lübeck, and their milieu. Paul Thomas Mann, (6 June 1875 12 August 1955) was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. His highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas are noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual. His analysis and critique of the European and German soul used modernized versions of German and Biblical stories, as well as the ideas of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Arthur Schopenhauer. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.