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  • The Holy Sinner

    by Thomas Mann ...
    Translated by H. T. Lowe-Porter ...
    The ringing of bells, the surging and swelling of bells supra urbem, above the whole city, in its airs overfilled with sound. Bells, bells, they swing and sway, they wag and weave through their whole arc on their beams, in their seats, hundred-voiced, in Babylonish confusion. Slow and swift, blaring and booming—there is neither measure nor harmony, they talk all at once and all together, they ... Read more

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  • Death in Venice (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. A Psychological Novella of Artistic Obsession, Forbidden Desire, Classical Beauty, and Decay in Cholera-Stricken Venice

    by Thomas Mann, June Umberley ...
    Translated by H. T. Lowe-Porter ...
    Death in Venice is a tightly wrought novella of artistic obsession, erotic longing, and moral dissolution, set against the luminous yet pestilential atmosphere of early twentieth-century Venice. Thomas Mann's prose combines classical restraint with psychological intensity, tracing the celebrated writer Gustav von Aschenbach's descent from disciplined aesthetic idealism into feverish infatuation ... Read more

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  • Joseph the Provider

    by Thomas Mann ...
    Translated by H. T. Lowe-Porter ...
    Thomas Mann regarded his monumental retelling of the biblical story of Joseph as his magnum opus. The four parts--The Stories of Jacob, Young Joseph, Joseph in Egypt, and Joseph the Provider--are a novel telling of Joseph's fall into slavery and his rise to be lord over Egypt. ... Read more

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  • The Magic Mountain

    by Thomas Mann ...
    Translated by H.T. Lowe-Porter ...
    In this masterpiece of intellectual fiction, Nobel Prize-winning author Thomas Mann takes you to a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps-a community devoted to sickness that becomes a microcosm for Europe's prewar society.Young Hans Castorp planned a three-week visit to his tubercular cousin, only to find himself mysteriously drawn to the isolated mountain retreat. As his stay stretches from months to ... Read more

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  • Joseph in Egypt

    by Thomas Mann ...
    Translated by H. T. Lowe-Porter ...
    Thomas Mann regarded his monumental re-telling of the biblical story of Joseph as his magnum opus, telling of Joseph's fall into slavery and his rise to be lord over Egypt. As Joseph is saved from the well and sold to Egypt, he adopts a new name, Osarseph, replacing the Jo- element with a reference to Osiris to indicate that he is now in the underworld. This change of name to account for changing ... Read more

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  • Buddenbrooks

    by Mann ...
    Translated by H. T. Lowe-Porter ...
    The Buddenbrooks have worked hard to make their name, and the eponymous firm of Johann Buddenbrook is widely known for its trading prowess. But despite trappings like an imposing town house on Meng Street, under the surface the cracks are showing: Johann's first son isn't living up to the status the family desires, and there are more problems to come.Buddenbrooks is a biographical novel spanning ... Read more

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  • Magic Mountain

    by Thomas Mann ...
    Translated by H. T. Lowe-Porter ...
    The Magic Mountain contains many contrasts and parallels with the earlier novel. Gustav von Aschenbach, an established author, is matched to a young, callow engineer at the start of a regular career. The erotic allure of the beautiful Polish boy Tadzio corresponds to the Asiatic-flabby ("asiatisch-schlaff") Russian Madame Chauchat. The setting was shifted both geographically and symbolically. The ... Read more

    $8.09 CAD

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  • Death in Venice and Seven Other Stories

    by Thomas Mann ...
    Translated by H.T. Lowe-Porter ...
    This volumes includes eight stories by Thomas Mann:Death in VeniceTonio KrögerMario and the MagicianDisorder and Early SorrowA Man and his DogThe Blood of the WalsungsTristanFelix Krull ... Read more

    $1.36 CAD

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    The Magic Mountain

    by Thomas Mann ...
    Narrated by Peter Noble ...

    Unabridged

    39 hours 30 min

    "It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death."Thomas Mann's acclaimed novel, The Magic Mountain, is a dizzyingly rich novel of ideas in which a Swiss sanatorium becomes a microcosm of pre-First World War Europe, playing with the elasticity of time, engaging in philosophical dialogue and ideological discourse, and blending personal growth with historical tragedy.Hans Castorp, a young German ... Read more

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    Rome and Persia

    The Seven Hundred Year Rivalry

    by Adrian Goldsworthy ...
    Narrated by Mark Elstob ...

    Unabridged

    20 hours 25 min

    **The extraordinary history of the epic rivalry between the ancient world’s two great superpowers.“Magnificent.” —Spectator**The Roman Empire was like no other. Stretching from the north of Britain to the Sahara, and from the Atlantic coast to the Euphrates, it imposed peace and prosperity on an unprecedented scale. Its only true rival lay in the east, where the Parthian and then Persian empires ... Read more

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    Hiroshima

    The Last Witnesses

    by M. G. Sheftall ...
    Narrated by Brian Nishii ...
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    **One of Washington Post's 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction From 2024The first volume in a two-book series about each of the atomic bomb drops that ended the Pacific War based on years of irreplicable personal interviews with survivors to tell a story of devastation and resilience**In this vividly rendered historical narrative, M. G. Sheftall layers the stories of hibakusha—the Japanese word for ... Read more

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    The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story

    Narrated by John Freeman, Erin Bennett, Scott Brick, Cassandra Campbell, Frankie Corzo, Ramón de Ocampo, Mark Feuerstein, Kim Mai Guest, Deepti Gupta, Dominic Hoffman0, Lisa Renee Pitts1, George Saunders2 ...

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    A selection of the best and most representative contemporary American short fiction from 1970 to 2020, including such authors as Ursula K. LeGuin, Toni Cade Bambara, Jhumpa Lahiri, Sandra Cisneros, and Ted Chiang, hand-selected by celebrated editor and anthologist John Freeman.IN THE PAST fifty years, the American short story has changed dramatically. New voices, forms, and mixtures of genres have ... Read more

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