Solitude can spark creativity and innovation. However, it also carries risks of self-destructive thoughts and poor decisions.

:The most generous readers are usually the ones with the most gaps on the shelf. Eight novels worth owning twice, because the ...

When a ‘Hot Hundred’ finds room for Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga, as the Guardian’s list does, and no place ...

Just 22 and still a student, Nelio Biedermann has been compared to Thomas Mann thanks to “Lázár,” his sweeping family saga. “Most people expect a young person’s first book to be about their own life,” ...

This audio release contains three radio adaptations of German author Thomas Mann's most celebrated works. ‘Buddenbrooks', published in 1901, is Mann's first novel. He was only twenty-five, but had ...

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Family saga set in 19th century Germany, chronicling the lives of three generations of the Buddenbrook family, the owners of a family business in the northern town of Luebeck. Based on the novel by ...

The merchant family of Counsel Jean and Bethsy Buddenbrook have been successfully trading in corn for generations and enjoy their life in Lübeck. However, when Counsel Jean dies, the great ship ...

A Nobel prize laureate, literary exile and conscience of a nation in the wake of Nazi rule, Thomas Mann remains a cultural icon 150 years since his birth. One of the greatest writers of the 20th ...

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