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Discover Thomas Mann's comic novel of deception and misplaced confidence - back in print for the first time in over twenty years. Waiter by day, man about Paris by night; the young and good looking Felix Krull has created for himself a personality...

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Hans Castorp tänker sig tre vilsamma semesterveckor på det luxuösa sanatoriet Berghof i Davos - men de tre veckorna blir sju år. När han insjuknar är han glad över att få stanna kvar och uppvakta den attraktiva Claudia Chauchat och diskutera livet...

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Thomas Mann regarded his monumental retelling of the biblical story of Joseph as his magnum opus. He conceived of the four parts-The Stories of Jacob, Young Joseph, Joseph in Egypt, and Joseph the Provider-as a unified narrative, a "mythological n...

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The world-famous masterpiece about a writer's obsessive pursuit of forbidden love by a Nobel Prize laureate. Translation by Michael Henry HeimPublished on the eve of World War I, a decade after Buddenbrooks had established Thomas Mann as a literar...

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With astonishment Aschenbach noticed that the boy was entirely beautiful. Ageing writer Gustav von Aschenbach is on holiday in Venice when he first notices a fellow guest in the foyer of his hotel: an exceptionally beautiful boy who is staying the...

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Most researchers, even with computers, find only a fraction of the sources available to them. As Library of Congress reference librarian Thomas Mann explains, researchers tend to work within one or another mental framework that limits their basic ...

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In this book, the third of the five trade books for the Institutions of Democracy project, Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein argue that congress faces a crisis of self-identity and role in the American Constitutional System. Congress is supposed to ...

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The Broken Branch offers both a brilliant diagnosis of the cause of Congressional decline and a much-needed blueprint for change, from two experts who understand politics and revere our institutions, but believe that Congress has become deeply dys...

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'All his powers were in decline; the only thing growing stronger in him was the conviction that all this could not last much longer, that his demise was imminent.' The Buddenbrooks (1900) was Thomas Mann's first major success. It draws on his own ...

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'impossible here, absurd, depraved, ludicrous and yet sacred, still honourable, even here: "I love you!"' This volume contains a generous selection of the short fiction Thomas Mann published in the years 1897 to 1912, after which he turned to larg...

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'Why must I feel that almost all--no, all--of the devices and conventions used by art are today only fit for parody?' Adrian Leverkühn is a composer who, at terrible personal cost, makes the breakthrough from traditional art to extreme modernism a...

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'Hans Castorp filled his lungs with the pure mountain air--this fresh, light atmosphere that was so easy to inhale and held no scent of moisture, no content, no memories...' Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain (1924) is a social comedy with tragic ov...

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The information world has undergone drastic changes since the publication of the 3rd edition of The Oxford Guide to Library Research in 2005, and Thomas Mann, a veteran reference librarian at the Library of Congress, has extensively revised his te...

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A scholarly edition of works by Thomas Deloney. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.

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The information world has undergone drastic changes since the publication of the 3rd edition of The Oxford Guide to Library Research in 2005, and Thomas Mann, a veteran reference librarian at the Library of Congress, has extensively revised his te...

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The information world has undergone drastic changes since the publication of the 3rd edition of The Oxford Guide to Library Research in 2005, and Thomas Mann, a veteran reference librarian at the Library of Congress, has extensively revised his te...

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The information world has undergone drastic changes since the publication of the 3rd edition of The Oxford Guide to Library Research in 2005, and Thomas Mann, a veteran reference librarian at the Library of Congress, has extensively revised his te...

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The definitive translation of 'perhaps the first great novel of the 20th century' (New York Times) 'I bear within me the seed, the rudiments, the possibility of life's capacities and endeavours. Where might I be, if I were not here?' Buddenbrooks ...

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The definitive translation of 'Arguably the great German novel' (New York Times) 'This man is mad. Of that there can no longer be any doubt, and it is pitiable that no one representing psychiatric science is part of our circle' In May 1943 a middl...

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One of the greatest works of twentieth-century European literature, in the definitive English translation 'Home and a settled life not only lay far behind, but also, and more importantly, they lay fathoms below him, and he was still climbing' It i...

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The acclaimed, definitive translation of Mann's magnum opus 'Deep is the well of the past. Should we not call it bottomless?' Thomas Mann described Joseph and His Brothers as his 'pyramid': his towering literary achievement, although the Nazi regi...

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Eight complex stories illustrative of the author's belief that "a story must tell itself," highlighted by the high art style of the famous title novella.

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"e;The great virtue of Royal Highness is its relaxed, fairy-tale quality that naturally brings the reader inside that 'Edwardian' calm which preceded everything common to contemporary social life. It is very easy to make connections ...

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Will American academic and research libraries be able to cope with the current technological, economic, and organizational issues that are bringing about rapid changes in information services or must fundamental changes first take place within the...

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A WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER If you're in any kind of leadership rolewhether at a company, a non-profit, or somewhere elsethere's a lot you can learn here.Bill Gates, Gates NotesHow could General Electricperhaps America's most iconic corporati...

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A WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER If you're in any kind of leadership rolewhether at a company, a non-profit, or somewhere elsethere's a lot you can learn here.Bill Gates, Gates Notes How could General Electricperhaps America's most iconic corporat...

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A WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER "If you're in any kind of leadership role-whether at a company, a non-profit, or somewhere else-there's a lot you can learn here."-Bill Gates, Gates Notes How could General Electric-perhaps America's most iconic co...

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