Death in Venice by Thomas Mann

"Death in Venice" by Thomas Mann is a novella published in 1912. It follows Gustav von Aschenbach, a disciplined writer in his fifties, who travels to Venice seeking respite. There, he becomes increasingly obsessed with Tadzio, a beautiful adolescent boy from a Polish family staying at his hotel. As Aschenbach's fascination intensifies, he abandons his former restraint and dignity. Meanwhile, a deadly cholera epidemic spreads through Venice—a danger he chooses to ignore rather than lose sight of the boy who has consumed his thoughts. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955
Translator Burke, Kenneth, 1897-1993
Uniform Title Der Tod in Venedig. English
Title Death in Venice
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_in_Venice
Credits Laura Natal Rodrigues at Free Literature (Images generously made available by Hathi Trust Digital Library.)
Reading Level Reading ease score: 63.0 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read.
Language English
LoC Class PT: Language and Literatures: Germanic, Scandinavian, and Icelandic literatures
Subject Venice (Italy) -- Fiction
Subject Psychological fiction
Subject Parables
Subject Homosexuality -- Fiction
Subject Middle age -- Fiction
Category Text
eBook-No. 66073
Release Date
Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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