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Death in Venice (German: Der Tod in Venedig) is a novella written by the German author Thomas Mann published in 1912. The work presents a great writer who visits Venice and is liberated, uplifted, and then increasingly obsessed by the sight of a stunningly beautiful youth.
Tadzio, the boy in the story, is the nickname for the Polish name Tadeusz and is based on a boy Mann had seen during his visit to Venice in 1911.
As the story opens, he is strolling...
2) Buddenbrooks
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First published in Germany in 1901 and translated into English in 1924, Thomas Mann's "Buddenbrooks" is the story of the decline of a wealthy German family over four generations which takes place in the years 1835 to 1877. Mann began writing the novel, his first, when he was only twenty-two years old and based much of his critically acclaimed work on the story of his own family and their peers. Mann was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929...
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The Holy Sinner explores a subject that fascinated Thomas Mann to the end of his life - the origins of evil and evil's connection with magic. Here Mann uses a medieval legend about "the exceeding mercy of God and the birth of the blessed Pope Gregory" - illuminating the notion of original sin and transcendence of evil.
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Pièce médiane dans l'édifice romanesque de Thomas Mann (1875-1955), située à mi-chemin des Buddenbrok (1901) et du Docteur Faustus (1947), La Montagne magique (1924) marque à la fois le nouveau départ idéologique d'un auteur qui abandonne les idées nationalistes et antidémocratiques des Confessions d'un apolitique (1918), mais aussi bien la fidélité à soi-même d'un écrivain...
6) London After Midnight: An English Translation of the 1929 French Novelization of the Lost Lon Cha
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The last known copy of London After Midnight, the lost 1927 Lon Chaney film, was destroyed in an MGM studio fire in 1967. Since then researchers have been combing film archives throughout the world in hopes of finding a surviving copy, but without success. Different 'reconstructions' of the film-one in book format, the other as a motion picture-have continued to generate interest in recent years, both relying primarily on the many surviving still...
7) Bashan and I
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Bashan and I is the moving story of Thomas Mann's relationship with his spirited German short-haired pointer. From their first encounter at a local farm, Mann reveals how he slowly grows to love this energetic, loyal, and intelligent animal. Taking daily walks in the nearby parkland, Mann begins to understand and appreciate Bashan as a living being, witnessing his native delight in chasing rabbits, deer, and squirrels along with his careful investigations...
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Royal Highness (German: Königliche Hoheit) is a 1909 novel by Thomas Mann. It is Mann's second novel and was written between the summer of 1906 and February 1909. Royal Highness is characterized by its fairytale-like qualities and was modeled after Mann's own romance and marriage to Katia Mann in February 1905. First published in 1909 in Die neue Rundschau, the novel was met with great enthusiasm from the public. However, it was met with a more divided...
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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 circumstances encourages Amenhotep to change his own...
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Mario and the Magician is one of Mann's most political stories. Mann openly criticizes fascism, a choice which later became one of the grounds for his exile to Switzerland following Hitler's rise to power. The magician, Cipolla, is analogous to the looming specter of fascism emergent in that era. The story was especially timely, considering the tensions in Europe when it was written, Mussolini was urging Italians to recapture the glory of the Roman...
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Two works by one of the 20th-century's great writers. In Death in Venice, a renowned author finds himself infatuated by a young boy - an attraction that proves fatal. A Man and His Dog is a charming essay about Mann's canine companion, a friendly mongrel pointer that accompanies the author on his morning walks.
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Basic Books
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c2012
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xiv, 226 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
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Two leading experts on Congress outline recommendations for ending obstructionist tactics and artificial barriers to compromise, suggesting specific institutional restructuring measures while calling on the public and media to work with government to correct problems rather than perpetuating acerbic campaign cycles.
15) Ypsilanti
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Ypsilanti, Michigan, home to Eastern Michigan University, is a small city where a great deal happens. This is a community with a strong sense of history and historic preservation. Homes and buildings about to fall in on themselves in the 1960s were preserved and restored and have found new uses today. It is a place of festivals, parades, concerts, and performances. There have been problems and turmoil, such as the time when the president of Eastern...
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An illustrated collection of seventeen classic nursery rhymes with a fun animal twist. The stories were, collected and illustrated by Thomas Mann. They include nursery rhymes are; Itsy Bitsy Spider, Baa Baa Black Sheep, Jack and Jill, Peter Peter, Pumpkin Eater, Fuzzy Wuzzy, Jack Horner, Little Miss Muffet, Jack Be Nimble, A Woodchuck Question, Rub-A-Dub-Dub, This Little Piggy, Three Blind Mice, Barber Barber Shave a Pig, Old King Cole, Peter Piper,...
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St. Martin's Press
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2017.
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344 pages
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"The award-winning authors of One Nation After Trump explain Trump?s rise and the danger his administration poses to our free institutions. They also offer encouragement to the millions of Americans now experiencing a new sense of citizenship and engagement and argue that our nation needs a unifying alternative to Trump?s dark and divisive brand of politics?an alternative rooted in a New Economy, a New Patriotism, a New Civil Society, and a New Democracy....
20) Our house
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Scream Factory
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[2018]
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1 DVD (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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When a college student caring for his younger siblings invents a machine that allows contact with the dead, he discovers that evil spirits are haunting the house.