Thomas Mann - Novels, Stories, Essays & Letters (23 books)

THOMAS MANN (1875-1955) was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, essayist, and philanthropist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1929 and the Goethe Prize in 1949.

His first novel, BUDDENBROOKS (1901), won both popular and critical acclaim. Deeply indebted to the German cultural tradition and specifically influenced by Schopenhauer, Wagner, and Nietzsche, Mann combines "intellectual" themes with vivid realism and comic flair. Much of his work including the early novellas, "Tonio Kröger" and "Death in Venice", explores the psychology of the creative temperament and the often tragic position of the intellectual or artist in bourgeois society. Politically he became an increasingly outspoken opponent of European fascism, a concern reflected in his second major novel, THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN (1924), and in later works.

Mann's exile from Hitler's Germany began in 1933, and he was deprived of his German citizenship in 1936. In 1938, he settled in the United States, first as a visiting professor at Princeton and later in California, where he was celebrated as a leading spokesman for the threatened humanistic values of Western civilization. He returned to Europe in 1952, spending the remaining three years of his life in Switzerland. His most important late work was the monumental tragic novel, DOCTOR FAUSTUS (1947), an allegory both of creativity and of the fate of Germany in the twentieth century. He also greatly extended the comic picaresque fragment, CONFESSIONS OF FELIX KRULL, which he had begun at the time of "Death in Venice"; it was never finished but appeared as his last novel in 1954.


This collection brings together many previously hard-to-find or out-of-print works, including novels, short stories, essays, letters, and wartime speeches. The following are in PDF format unless otherwise indicated:

* THE BELOVED RETURNS: LOTTE IN WEIMAR (Knopf, 1940; 1968). Translated by H. T. Lowe-Porter.

* THE BLACK SWAN (Knopf, 1954). Translated by Willard R. Trask.

* BUDDENBROOKS (Vintage, 1961). Translated by H. T. Lowe-Porter.

* CONFESSIONS OF FELIX KRULL, CONFIDENCE MAN (Knopf, 1969). Translated by Denver Lindley. -- PDF + ePUB

* DEATH IN VENICE (HarperCollins, 2004). Translated by Michael Henry Heim, with an Introduction by Michael Cunningham. -- ePUB

* DEATH IN VENICE & OTHER STORIES (Signet Classic, 1999). Translated with an Introduction by Jefferson S. Chase.

* DEATH IN VENICE & OTHER STORIES (Bantam, 1988). Translated with an Introduction by David Luke. -- PDF + ePUB

* DEATH IN VENICE & SEVEN OTHER STORIES (Knopf, 1963). Translated by H. T. Lowe-Porter.

* DOCTOR FAUSTUS (Knopf, 1948). Translated by H. T. Lowe-Porter. -- PDF + ePUB

* ESSAYS OF THREE DECADES (Knopf, 1947). Translated by H. T. Lowe-Porter.

* LETTERS TO PAUL AMANN, 1915-1952 (Wesleyan UP, 1960). Edited by Herbert Wegener; translated by Richard and Clara Winston. [Missing pp. 121-36]

* THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN (Knopf, 1965). Translated by H. T. Lowe-Porter. [Missing pp. 222-23]

* THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN (Everyman's Library, 2005). Translated by John E. Woods, with an Introduction by A. S. Byatt. -- ePUB. For a PDF of this translation, see http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/8517943/

* REFLECTIONS OF A NONPOLITICAL MAN (Ungar, 1987). Translated with an Introduction by Walter D. Morris.

* ROYAL HIGHNESS (Knopf, 1939). Translated by A. Cecil Curtis, with a Preface translated by H. T. Lowe-Porter. -- ePUB

* SIX EARLY STORIES (Sun & Moon Press, 1997). Translated with a Note by Peter Constantine; edited with an Introduction by Burton Pike.

* A SKETCH OF MY LIFE (Knopf, 1960). Translated by H. T. Lowe-Porter.

* STORIES OF THREE DECADES (Knopf, 1936). Translated by H. T. Lowe-Porter.

* THE TABLES OF THE LAW (Paul Dry, 2010). Translated by Marion Faber and Stephen Lehmann, with an Afterword by Michael Wood.

* THIS WAR (Knopf, 1940). Translated by Eric Sutton.

* TONIO KRÖGER & OTHERS STORIES (Bantam, 1970). Translated by David Luke.

* THE TRANSPOSED HEADS: A Legend of India (Vintage, 1959). Translated by H. T. Lowe-Porter.

* THE WAR AND THE FUTURE: An Address by Thomas Mann (Library of Congress, 1944).


See also these additional translations of Thomas Mann:

* Buddenbrooks (trans. Woods)
ePUB + MOBI - http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/8794124/
PDF - http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/8473524/

* Doctor Faustus (trans. Woods)
PDF - http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/8528042/