Customer Review: You can see a summary of the plot of the book in mostly every other review about this book. What I did not found was the fantastic way of the author to tell several stories in several levels at the same time. For the straight thinker, the story might be closer to a Seinfeld episode than a literary... more info
Customer Review: The third edition of Thomas Mann's "Oxford Guide to Library Research" is an indispensable friend for students and scholars, or anyone in the general public who has a hobby, a pet project or just the desire to know, and wants not only to improve their research skills but to learn - and take full... more info
Customer Review: Mann and Ornstein's "The Broken Branch" already needs an update to catch up on all the dysfunction since 2006. Congress' inability to accomplish much of anything is explained fairly well here, though the book is at its best when it offers the history of the Congress instead of the brief highlights... more info
Customer Review: It's been a long time since I haven't finished a book, even ones I didn't like. I really enjoyed Goethe's Faust and thought that this book would be a great follow up. I've never read any of Mann's books but I took a shot on this one and wish I didn't. I found the text to be far too complex and... more info
Customer Review: i literally finished this book in half a day. I could not put it down or get it out of my head. Quite simply, one of the best novels I have EVER read. Every word sticks, the body is transported to another world and then at the last page, brings you back into cold, harsh reality, breathless.
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Customer Review: French literature of or about the XIX Century deeply explored the rise of the bourgeoisie over the nobility. Think of Balzac and Proust. But it was this book, published at the turn of the XX Century, which first explored in a comparable depth the decline and fall of a bourgeois family, amidst social... more info
Customer Review: I'm at a loss about how to begin a review of the titanic marvel "Joseph and His Brothers" because of its being so many things, adding fright to the one who tries to properly bring forth what future readers are in store for upon opeing its first page and delving into "Descent into Hell." I have... more info
Customer Review: If you like short stories about grown men who are sexually attracted to boys, suicide, incest, and self-absorbed German narcissism, you'll love Death in Venice. Me, I don't much cotton to such themes in what I read, so I had trouble wading through this morass of early 20th century European... more info
Customer Review: "The Magic Mountain" is a lengthy extension of a comical short story of a passive, unremarkable upper middle class gentleman. World War I caused Mann to use the character as an observer of the decay of traditional German values and the political and social chaos that culminated in a "break" that... more info
Customer Review: Because of the intricacy of speech in the days before our short-order transient/on-the- run culture, with all today's media distractions and clashes of civilizations, life in the 17- and 1800's was seen much closer. Little details were magnified, concepts got more-deeply probed; people made a big... more info
Customer Review: Thomas Mann has taken an ages old theme, the attraction of an older, worn out man for a youthful boy, dressed it up in a series of classical allusions, and details how this attraction merely accelerates the decay of the man whose decline began long before he first saw the boy. In DEATH IN VENICE,... more info
Customer Review: Thomas Mann combines classical music, philosophy, social commentary, and fiction all in one impressive monumental work. This is a complex and time consuming read from the great writers and a Nobel laureate: Paul Thomas Mann (1875-1955), German novelist, short story writer, and social commentator. If... more info
Customer Review: I was first introduced to this series, The Westminster Bible Companion in college. Since graduating I have become well on my way to completing the entire collection. I definitely recommend all of the books. Each book in the series seems to have a different author (or set of authors) and so adds... more info
Customer Review: Thomas Mann was a brilliant writer. I won't argue that point to the contrary. He knew what he was doing technically, and had uncommon literary talent (which both garner him a...perhaps generous...four stars for this book). BUT... His stories--including Death in Venice--did nothing for me.... more info
Customer Review: If you're a struggling writer, artist, musician, Thomas Mann is for you. This book is wildly funny and satisfying.
The author understands the struggle and invites you in. The protaganist of the novel is realistic and naughty. You will see how Mann has inspired other writer's in his wake---look... more info
Customer Review: This is among my favorite books, and is greatly underappreciated. Other reviewers have emphasized the thoughtfullness of the story in plumbing the dichtomy between mind and body. But this is something many authors have sought to do, and what distinguishes Mann's treatment is the simplicity with... more info
Customer Review: Compulsion pulls you through the powerful woodcuts in a few minutes. Each successive reading takes longer as you discover and savor character, plot and craft. Masereel lived by the nitroglycerin theory of rhetoric--the fewer the words, the leaner the lines, the more powerful the message.
Customer Review: In the same league with Gabriel Garcia Marquez' "100 Years of Solitude," and Leo Tolstoy's "War and Peace." It's the mighty Buddenbrooks (noble German businessmen) versus the Industrial Revolution, and I won't let on who claims the victory. Mann tackles countless issues in this massive and wonderful... more info
Customer Review: The Kindle format of this book is a poor choice -- the lines of text are not reflowed, so you get annoying half-length lines all down the page.
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Customer Review: It is Mann's final novella. It is a twist on the matter of deceitfulness. The greatest deceit is self-deceit. The story was inspired by an anecdote given to Mann by his wife Katia according to the forward by Carlos Baker.
The setting of the story is the 1920's. Rosalie is a widow and a... more info
Customer Review: This book enabled me to discover that the correspondence between Oliver's poetry and traditional religious language provides a fresh perspective from which to enjoy her work. God of Dirt is an important study of a contemporary poet whose work is as likely to be read by a preacher in a pulpit as... more info
Customer Review: Thomas Mann's masterful short novel "Death in Venice" (1912) tells the story of a distinguished German writer, Gustav Aschenbach, who, at the age of 53 while on holiday in Venice, develops a passion for a 14-year old boy named Tadzio. Mann's story sets the demands and powers of eros, human... more info
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