The Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann

The Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann

A new translation into English of Thomas Mann's The Buddenbrooks (1900). The novel traces the decline of a wealthy merchant family during the last decades of the nineteenth century.

Mike Mitchell taught at the University of Reading and the University of Stirling before becoming a full-time literary translator. He has translated over one hundred works, both fiction and non-fiction, from German and French. His translation of Herbert Rosendorfer's Letters Back from Ancient China (1997) was awarded the Schlegel-Tieck Prize in 1998. Ritchie Robertson retired in 2021 as Schwarz-Taylor Professor of German at the University of Oxford. He is now an Emeritus Fellow of the Queen's College. His many books include Kafka: Judaism, Politics, and Literature (1985), The Enlightenment: The Pursiuit of Happiness, 1680-1790 (2020) and German Political Tragedy: The Machiavellian Plot and the Necessary Crime (2024), as well as books on Kafka and Goethe in OUP's Very Short Introductions series. Since 2004, he has been a Fellow of the British Academy.

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ISBN 13	9780198843238
ISBN 10	0198843232
Title	The Buddenbrooks
Author	Thomas Mann
Series	Oxford World's Classics
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	OUP Oxford
Year published	2026-01-08
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