{"product_id":"buddenbrooks-the-decline-of-a-family-everymans-library-9780679417378","title":"Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family (Everyman's Library)","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBuddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family (Everyman's Library)\u003c\/strong\u003e by Mann, Thomas. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780679417378.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA classic of modern literature from Thomas Mann, here in stunning hardcover: Buddenbrooks is the story of four generations of a wealthy bourgeois family in northern Germany facing the advent of modernity; in an uncertain new world, the family’s bonds and traditions begin to disintegrate.\n\nAs Mann charts the Buddenbrooks’ decline from prosperity to bankruptcy, from moral and psychic soundness to sickly piety, artistic decadence, and madness, he ushers the reader into a world of stunning vitality, pieced together from births and funerals, weddings and divorces, recipes, gossip, and earthy humor.\n\nFirst published in Germany in 1901, when Mann was only twenty-six, Buddenbrooks surpasses all other modern family chronicles in its immensity of scope, richness of detail, and fullness of humanity. With remarkable fidelity to the original German text, this superb translation emphasizes the magnificent scale of Mann’s achievement in this riveting, tragic novel.\n\nTranslated by John E. Woods with an introduction by T. J. Reed.\n\nEverymans Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket. Contemporary Classics include an introduction, a select bibliography, and a chronology of the authors life and times.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Everyman's Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44945330110517,"sku":"ByrdShop_0679417370","price":46.89,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780679417378_913b9edd-5771-4402-8a1a-9e18abcf0e71.jpg?v=1778692218","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/buddenbrooks-the-decline-of-a-family-everymans-library-9780679417378","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}