Amazon cover image
Image from Amazon.com
Image from Google Jackets

Buddenbrooks

By: Contributor(s): Language: English Publication details: Vintage Classics 1952 LondonDescription: viii, 854pISBN:
  • 9780749386474 (PB)
Subject(s): Summary: Buddenbrooks is the story of four generations of a wealthy bourgeois family in northern Germany facing the advent of modernity; in an uncertain new world, the family’s bonds and traditions begin to disintegrate. As Mann charts the Buddenbrooks’ decline from prosperity to bankruptcy, from moral and psychic soundness to sickly piety, artistic decadence, and madness, he ushers the reader into a world of stunning vitality, pieced together from births and funerals, weddings and divorces, recipes, gossip, and earthy humor.
Item type: BOOKS List(s) this item appears in: New Arrivals (16 February 2025)
Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.
Star ratings
    Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)
Holdings
Home library Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode
IMSc Library 82-312.6 MAN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 78357

Buddenbrooks is the story of four generations of a wealthy bourgeois family in northern Germany facing the advent of modernity; in an uncertain new world, the family’s bonds and traditions begin to disintegrate.
As Mann charts the Buddenbrooks’ decline from prosperity to bankruptcy, from moral and psychic soundness to sickly piety, artistic decadence, and madness, he ushers the reader into a world of stunning vitality, pieced together from births and funerals, weddings and divorces, recipes, gossip, and earthy humor.

Translated from the German

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.
The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India