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Didnt found the family business, but made it big during the wars against napoleon bonaparte, but that happens before the novel starts. The book was published in multiple languages including german, consists of 1008 pages and is available in paperback format. It is the story of a middle class merchant family in the middle eighteen hundreds. The decline of a family everymans library contemporary classics series book online at best prices in india on. The decline of a family vintage international kindle edition by thomas mann, john e. Jan 01, 2011 free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg. Judged as the greatest of mann s novels by some critics, it is ranked as among the greatest by all. Thomas mann was a german author who won the noble prize for literature and from what i read this seems like the best translation from the original german. Buddenbrooks is a 1901 novel by thomas mann, chronicling the decline of a wealthy north german merchant family over the course of four generations, incidentally portraying the manner of life and mores of the hanseatic bourgeoisie in the years from 1835 to 1877. Buddenbrooks verfall einer familie by thomas mann german. Whether youve loved the book or not, if you give your honest and detailed thoughts then people will find new books that are right for them.
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