Buddenbrooks, volume 2 of 2 by Thomas Mann

"Buddenbrooks, volume 2 of 2" by Thomas Mann is a novel published in 1901. This volume continues the chronicle of a prominent north German merchant family's gradual decline across four generations, from 1835 to 1877. Drawing from Mann's own family history in Lübeck, the story explores the conflict between business duty and personal happiness as the Buddenbrooks face financial reversals, failed marriages, and shifting social values during Germany's rapid industrialization. The work earned Mann the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955
Translator Lowe-Porter, H. T. (Helen Tracy), 1876-1963
Title Buddenbrooks, volume 2 of 2
Original Publication New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1924, reprint 1927.
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddenbrooks
Credits Tim Lindell, David E. Brown, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
Reading Level Reading ease score: 78.0 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.
Language English
LoC Class PT: Language and Literatures: Germanic, Scandinavian, and Icelandic literatures
Subject Germany -- Fiction
Subject Domestic fiction
Subject Families -- Fiction
Category Text
eBook-No. 72962
Release Date
Last Update Mar 29, 2025
Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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