Penguin Buddenbrooks. Verfall einer Familie

Mann's great family and societal novel "In my son, I hoped to continue living? In an even more anxious, weaker, more wavering personality?" Through diligence and commercial acumen, the Buddenbrooks have achieved influence and wealth. However, the esteemed Lübeck family faces a crucial turning point: Which of the four descendants will carry on the standards of the previous generation while still proving themselves in a new era? Mann referred to his work, published in 1901, as "a societal novel disguised as a family saga." Through numerous precisely and wittily crafted characters, he depicts the inner development of the bourgeoisie in transition. In 1929, Thomas Mann was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "primarily for his great novel 'Buddenbrooks'." • Thomas Mann's legendary debut novel • Considered the first societal novel of world significance in the German language • "What a novel! [...] Misunderstood sons, unhappy daughters, and the failure in money and bourgeois ideals." Deutsche Welle • Now in the world's most famous classic series.