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by Thomas Mann (Author), John E. Woods (Translator), T. J. Reed (Introduction by)
Front Jacket
Introduction by T. J. Reed; Translation by John E. Woods
Author Biography
THOMAS MANN (1875-1955) was from Germany. At the age of 25, he published his first novel, Buddenbrooks. In 1924, The Magic Mountain 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).
JOHN E. WOODS was the distinguished translator of many books -- most notably Arno Schmidt's Evening Edged in Gold, for which he won both the American Book Award for translation and the PEN Translation Prize; Patrick Süskind's Perfume, for which he again won the PEN Translation Prize in 1987; Suskind's The Pigeon and Mr. Summer's Story; Doris Dörrie's Love, Pain, and the Whole Damn Thing and What Do You Want from Me?; and Libuse Monikova's The Façade. Mr. Woods died in 2023.T. J. REED was the Taylor Professor of German Language and Literature at the University of Oxford until his retirement in 2004. Previous publications include Thomas Mann: The Uses of Tradition and The Classical Centre: Goethe and Weimar 1775-1832.
Number of Pages: 776
Dimensions: 1.7 x 8.3 x 5.25 IN
Publication Date: October 04, 1994
