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Buddenbrooks ˈbʊd.dɛn.ˌbʁoːks 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 fa...
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(from the article `Mann, Thomas`) This ambivalence found full expression in his first novel, Buddenbrooks, which Mann had at first intended to be a novella in which the experience of ... ...A novel by Thomas Mann, Buddenbrooks (1901; subtitled Verfall einer Famille, or `The Decline of a Family,` Eng. trans. Buddenbrooks), link...
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Novel by the German writer Thomas
Mann, published in 1901. Set in northern Germany during the 19th century, it describes the decline of a family. ...
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