Tonio Kröger by Thomas Mann
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"Tonio Kröger" by Thomas Mann is a novella written in 1901. The story follows a man caught between two worlds: his merchant father's bourgeois respectability and his artistic mother's creative spirit. As Tonio grows from schoolboy to celebrated writer, he struggles with feeling both superior to and envious of ordinary people's innocent vitality. His journey from south to north Germany forces him to confront a troubling question: must the artist always remain
an outsider to respectable society? Mann explores the costs of artistic life through this deeply autobiographical portrait. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955 |
|---|---|
| Title | Tonio Kröger |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonio_Kr%C3%B6ger |
| Credits |
Produced by Jana Srna and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 77.4 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | German |
| LoC Class | PT: Language and Literatures: Germanic, Scandinavian, and Icelandic literatures |
| Subject | Artists -- Fiction |
| Subject | Denmark -- Fiction |
| Subject | Germany, Northern -- Fiction |
| Subject | Munich (Germany) -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 23313 |
| Release Date | Nov 4, 2007 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 1102 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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