Publisher's Synopsis

Discover Mann's Nobel Prizewinning semi-autobiographical and sweeping family epic.

The Buddenbrook clan is everything you'd expect of a nineteenth-century German merchant family - wealthy, esteemed, established. Four generations later, a tide of twentieth-century modernism has gradually disintegrated the bourgeois values on which the Buddenbrooks built their success.

In this, Mann's first novel, his astounding, semi-autobiographical family epic, he portrays the transition of genteel Germanic stability to a very modern uncertainty.

'Perhaps the first great novel of the 20th century' New York Times

Book information

ISBN: 9780749386474
Publisher: Random House
Imprint: Vintage Classics
Pub date:
DEWEY: 833.912
DEWEY edition: 20
Language: English
Sales rank: 6431
Number of pages: 604
Weight: 612g
Height: 197mm
Width: 131mm
Spine width: 33mm