Thomas Mann: 204 books

Geplant als Novelle, als heiteres Gegenstück zum ›Tod in Venedig‹, entstand mit dem ›Zauberberg‹ einer der großen Romane der klassischen Moderne. Ein kurzer Besuch in einem Davoser Sanatorium wird für den Protagonisten Hans Castorp zu einem siebenjährigen Aufenthalt, der Kurort wird zur...

O livro mais importante do autor Prémio Nobel da Literatura de 1929. História mágica ou filosófica, romance histórico ou de formação, narrativa sobre o tempo ou viagem interior de um jovem alemão honrado e ávido de experiências, este romance envolve e enreda o leitor em teias mágicas que não...

An orphaned American boy wounded by Vietnam, used by Mossad and the CIA…‘They will try to turn you into a machine. Don’t let them do that!’If he were a machine, could he be switched off? For the first time in his war-torn life, he doubted it. He felt as though life had gripped...

"Heim ins Reich" kam Österreich letztendlich erst im Jahre 1938 – vorübergehend nur, und auf Druck von Seiten des nationalsozialistischen Regimes. Der Ausdruck für einen möglichen Beitritt der Alpenrepublik zu Deutschland, die sogenannte großdeutsche Lösung, erhielt erst damit seine...

"The great virtue of Royal Highness is its relaxed, fairy-tale quality that naturally brings the reader inside that 'Edwardian' calm which preceded everything common to contemporary social life. It is very easy to make connections between the book and theories of stratification, statemaking, ritual,...

Die Wintersonne stand nur als armer Schein, milchig und matt hinter Wolkenschichten über der engen Stadt. Naß und zugig war's in den giebeligen Gassen, und manchmal fiel eine Art von weichem Hagel, nicht Eis, nicht Schnee.

Buddenbrooks was Thomas Manns first novel, published in 1901 when he was twenty-six years old. The publication of the 2nd edition in 1903 confirmed that Buddenbrooks was a major literary success in Germany. It portrays the downfall (already announced in the subtitle, Decline of a Family) of a wealthy...

They are the ultimate forbidden pleasure--ruthless in their eroticism, tender in their devotions, and utterly irresistible in their dangerous temptations. Spend the night with four mysterious men whose kiss is more than deadly, it's forever. . . Masters Of Midnight His Hunger, by William...

Congress is the first branch of government in the American system, write Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein, but now it is a broken branch, damaged by partisan bickering and internal rancor. The Broken Branch offers both a brilliant diagnosis of the cause of Congressional decline and a much-needed...

Hyperpartisanship is as old as American democracy. But now, acrimony is not confined to a moment; it's a permanent state of affairs and has seeped into every part of the political process. Identifying the overriding problems that have led Congress-and the United States-to the brink of institutional...

Fantastic Universe started publishing in 1953 and continued until March 1960. It was one of the better magazines to launch during the boom in science fiction magazines publishing. It published many important stories' by some of the fields best known writers. This is our third Fantastic universe Superpack....

Kein Feiertag ist ihnen heilig! 'Mit Mordsgeschichten durch das Jahr' ist das Motto dieser Kurzgeschichtensammlung. Und nicht nur das Motto ist besonders, sondern auch die Gesellschaft, die die Taten auf dem Papier begeht. Der Jahresplaner des feinsinnigen Mordens im Überblick: Neujahr: Sunil Mann,...

Twitter mir das Lied vom Tod... Wenn die ›Netiquette‹ versagt, das YouTube-Video bloßstellt, ein Hacker seine Tastatur glühen lässt oder ein falscher Freund alles über einen erfährt, dann ist man im Internetzeitalter angekommen. Namhafte KrimiautorInnen sind online gegangen und haben die...