Buddenbrooks

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An excellent first UK translation of Buddenbrooks, Thomas Mann's German classic. An unusual two-volume first UK edition of Buddenbrooks, translated by Helen Tracy Lowe-Porter and first published in the US by Alfred A. Knopf, New York,1924. The UK edition published in the same year by Martin Secker, London.In the original publisher's cloth binding.Widely regarded as the most renowed German novelist of the twentieth century, Thomas Mann originally published Buddenbrooks in Germany, 1901. Lowe-Porter was the first to translate his work into English, leading to Mann's recognition as Nobel Prize Literature laureate in 1929.The chronicle of a great, but declining, Hanseaten family over four generations. Drawing largely from his own family history, Mann's novel explores the shifting attitudes towards bourgeois decadence at the time of Germany's rapid industrialisation.Extremely popular in Germany from the outset, translation into English likely delayed by the First World War.A prior owner has pasted a newspaper advertisement for this edition to the front paste down, placing the original price at 7s 6d for each volume. Two volumes in the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, generally excellent. Light bumping to extremities and joints. Spines notable faded, as is common with this edition. A stain to the spine of Vol.2. Newspaper clipping inserted to front paste down of Vol.1. Offsetting to end papers. Previous bookdealers stamps to both front free end papers. Hinges strained after endpapers. Otherwise, internally firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. The odd handling mark. Mild age toning and the occasional spot. Dusting to fore edges. Very Good. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 1002J2

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