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Thomas Mann

Born

in Lübeck, Germany

June 06, 1875

Died

August 12, 1955

Genre

Classics, Fiction, Philosophy

Influences

Theodor Fontane, Goethe, Ivan Turgenev, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Schopenh ...more

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Serbian: Tomas Man

Thomas Mann was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and Nobel Prize laureate in 1929, known for his series of highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas, noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual. His analysis and critique of the European and German soul used modernized German and Biblical stories, as well as the ideas of Goethe, Nietzsche, and Schopenhauer. His older brother was the radical writer Heinrich Mann, and three of his six children, Erika Mann, Klaus Mann and Golo Mann, also became important ...more

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Average rating: 3.98 · 296,592 ratings · 19,154 reviews · 1,708 distinct works • Similar authors

	Death in Venice 3.70 avg rating — 58,299 ratings — published 1912 — 796 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann, John E. Woods (Translator) 4.13 avg rating — 50,764 ratings — published 1924 — 596 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family 4.19 avg rating — 31,115 ratings — published 1901 — 568 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Death in Venice and Other Tales by Thomas Mann, Joachim Neugroschel (Translator) 3.90 avg rating — 16,841 ratings — published 1911 — 60 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Doctor Faustus 4.08 avg rating — 12,632 ratings — published 1947 — 116 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tonio Kröger by Thomas Mann, J. White (Editor) 3.73 avg rating — 7,185 ratings — published 1903 — 230 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man: The Early Years 3.83 avg rating — 5,043 ratings — published 1954 — 226 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mario and the Magician 3.34 avg rating — 5,711 ratings — published 1929 — 82 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Death in Venice and Seven Other Stories by Thomas Mann, H.T. Lowe-Porter 3.88 avg rating — 2,812 ratings — published 1936 — 39 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Joseph and His Brothers by Thomas Mann, John E. Woods (Translator) 4.43 avg rating — 2,024 ratings — published 1943 — 108 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Thomas Mann

Joseph und seine Brüder (5 books)
by

Thomas Mann,

Томас Манн,

Страшимир Джамджиев (Translator)

4.40 avg rating — 3,287 ratings

Der Zauberberg (2 books)
by

Thomas Mann,

İris Kantemir (Translator)

4.18 avg rating — 1,893 ratings

Josef a bratří jeho (3 books)
by

Thomas Mann

4.35 avg rating — 572 ratings

Tagebücher (10 books)
by

Thomas Mann

3.95 avg rating — 58 ratings

Essays (6 books)
by

Thomas Mann

3.65 avg rating — 26 ratings

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Quotes by Thomas Mann (?)

“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
― Thomas Mann, Essays of Three Decades

tags: authors, creative-process, struggle, writers, writing

3682 likes

“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.”
― Thomas Mann, Death in Venice and Other Tales

tags: absurd, beauty, perverse, solitude

1755 likes

“It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.”
― Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

tags: death, love

435 likes

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2nd Quarter Long Read Classic-April-June 2015

1936, Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell, 1037 pages

14 votes, 31.1%

1605, Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 982 pages

8 votes, 17.8%

1981, Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie, 647 pages

5 votes, 11.1%

1812, The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales by Jacob Grimm, 880 pages

5 votes, 11.1%

1880, The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 796 pages

4 votes, 8.9%

1914, Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham, 684 pages

3 votes, 6.7%

1901, Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family by Thomas Mann, 731 pages

2 votes, 4.4%

1982, North and South by John Jakes, 812 pages

2 votes, 4.4%

1962, The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing, 640 pages

1 vote, 2.2%

1941, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon by Rebecca West, 1181 pages

1 vote, 2.2%

45 total votes

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