Mann, Thomas 1875-1955 creator Lowe-Porter, H. T. (Helen Tracy) 1876-1963 text utu 2024 monographic en 1 online resource : multiple file formats "Buddenbrooks, volume 1 of 2" by Thomas Mann is a novel published in 1901. It chronicles the decline of a wealthy north German merchant family across four generations, from 1835 to 1877. Drawing from Mann's own family history in Lübeck, the story explores conflicts between business and art, duty and personal happiness, as the Buddenbrook family's fortunes and ideals gradually erode amid Germany's rapid industrialization and changing values. Mann's first novel earned him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddenbrooks Release date is 2024-02-15 Tim Lindell, David E. Brown, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) Originally published: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1924 Germany -- Fiction Domestic fiction Families -- Fiction PT New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1924 https://archive.org/details/buddenbrooks0001mann/page/n7/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/72961 https://archive.org/details/buddenbrooks0001mann/page/n7/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/72961 UtSlPG 260607 20260610134704.0 72961