{"product_id":"buddenbrooks-isbn-9780679417378","title":"Buddenbrooks","description":"\u003cb\u003eA classic of modern literature from Thomas Mann, here in stunning hardcover: \u003ci\u003eBuddenbrooks\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst published in Germany in 1901, when Mann was only twenty-six, \u003ci\u003eBuddenbrooks\u003c\/i\u003e surpasses all other modern family chronicles in its immensity of scope, richness of detail, and fullness of humanity. With remarkable fidelity to the original German text, this superb translation emphasizes the magnificent scale of Mann’s achievement in this riveting, tragic novel. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTranslated by John E. Woods with an introduction by T. J. Reed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEveryman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket. Contemporary Classics include an introduction, a select bibliography, and a chronology of the author's life and times.“A remarkable achievement.... In Woods’s sparkling translation, the reader encounters a work that is closer in style, vocabulary, idiom, and tone to the original.” —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Wonderfully fresh and elegant.... Essential reading for anyone who wishes to enter Mann’s fictional universe.” —\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003eTHOMAS MANN (1875–1955) was from Germany. At the age of 25, he published his first novel, \u003ci\u003eBuddenbrooks\u003c\/i\u003e. In 1924, \u003ci\u003eThe Magic Mountain\u003c\/i\u003e was published, and five years later, Mann was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Following the rise of the Nazis to power, he left Germany for good in 1933 to live in Switzerland and then in California, where he wrote Doctor Faustus (first published in the United States in 1948).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJOHN E. WOODS was the distinguished translator of many books — most notably Arno Schmidt's \u003ci\u003eEvening Edged in Gold\u003c\/i\u003e, for which he won both the American Book Award for translation and the PEN Translation Prize; Patrick Süskind's \u003ci\u003ePerfume\u003c\/i\u003e, for which he again won the PEN Translation Prize in 1987; Suskind's \u003ci\u003eThe Pigeon and Mr. Summer's Story\u003c\/i\u003e; Doris Dörrie's \u003ci\u003eLove, Pain, and the Whole Damn Thing\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWhat Do You Want from Me?\u003c\/i\u003e; and Libuse Monikova's \u003ci\u003eThe Façade\u003c\/i\u003e. Mr. Woods died in 2023.\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eT. J. REED was the Taylor Professor of German Language and Literature at the University of Oxford until his retirement in 2004. Previous publications include \u003ci\u003eThomas Mann: The Uses of Tradition\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Classical Centre: Goethe and Weimar\u003c\/i\u003e 1775–1832.","brand":"Everyman's Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304521289957,"sku":"NP9780679417378","price":34.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780679417378.jpg?v=1767723138","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/buddenbrooks-isbn-9780679417378","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}