Thomas Mann
Born
in Lübeck, Germany
June 06, 1875
Died
August 12, 1955
Genre
Influences
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The Magic Mountain
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published
1924
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68 editions
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Death in Venice
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published
1911
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855 editions
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Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family
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published
1901
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172 editions
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Death in Venice and Other Tales
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published
1998
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19 editions
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Doctor Faustus
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published
1947
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23 editions
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Tonio Kröger
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published
1903
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6 editions
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Mario and the Magician
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published
1929
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107 editions
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Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man: The Early Years
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published
1954
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82 editions
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Death in Venice and Other Stories
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published
1928
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12 editions
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Death in Venice and Seven Other Stories
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published
1936
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43 editions
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“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
― Essays of Three Decades
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“Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.”
― Death in Venice and Other Tales
― Death in Venice and Other Tales
Polls
3rd Qtr (July -Sept) Long Read
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 776 pages, 1880
The Arabian Nights, 1049 pages, 800
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, 798 pages, 1320
Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham, 684 pages, 1915
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickelby by Charles Dickens, 864 pages, 1839
The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu, 1182 pages, 1021
Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family by Thomas Mann, 731 pages, 1901
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding, 975 pages, 1749
The Sagas of Icelanders, 782 pages, 1200
The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser, 1248 pages, 1590
Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe, 644 pages, 1929
The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio, 909 pages, 1353
Texas by James A. Michener, 1472 pages, 1985
Shōgun by James Clavell, 1152 pages, 1975
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson, 1139 pages, 1999
Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady by Samuel Richardson, 1534 pages, 1748
A Dream of Red Mansion by Cao Xueqin, 2400 pages, 1791
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