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Buddenbrooks

The Decline of a Family

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Buddenbrooks

By: Thomas Mann
Narrated by: David Rintoul
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First published in 1900, when Thomas Mann was 25, Buddenbrooks is a minutely imagined chronicle of four generations of a North German mercantile family - a work so true to life that it scandalized the author's former neighbours in his native Lübeck.

As he charts the Buddenbrooks' decline from prosperity to bankruptcy, from moral and psychic soundness to sickly piety, artistic decadence and madness, Mann ushers the reader into a world of rich vitality, pieced together from births and funerals, weddings and divorces, recipes, gossip and earthy humour. It is perhaps the first great family saga of modern literature, and it brought to public notice a writer of world stature who, three decades later, was to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. David Rintoul gives one of his finest performances in this committed and deeply moving reading.©1993 Alfred A Knopf (P)2016 Ukemi Productions Ltd Classics Family Life Genre Fiction Historical Fiction
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The authors consistent and steady storytelling quickly paints complete characters on our mind canvas and without effort we are living their lives with feeling, taking part in the L’s and W’s and once the story comes to completion - satisfied.

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