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- Letters of Heinrich and Thomas Mann, 1900-1949 (Magill Book Reviews)
- Death in Venice (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
- Disorder and Early Sorrow (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
- The Infant Prodigy (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
- Gladius Dei (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
- The Magic Mountain (Magill Book Reviews)
- Death in Venice (Magill Book Reviews)
- The Black Swan (Masterplots, Fourth Edition)
- Buddenbrooks (Masterplots, Fourth Edition)
- Death in Venice (Masterplots, Fourth Edition)
- Doctor Faustus (Masterplots, Fourth Edition)
- The Magic Mountain (Masterplots, Fourth Edition)
- Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man (Masterplots, Fourth Edition)
- Psychological Long Fiction (Critical Survey of Long Fiction, Fourth Edition)
- Self-Reflexive Long Fiction (Critical Survey of Long Fiction, Fourth Edition)
- Theory of Short Fiction (Critical Survey of Short Fiction, Second Revised Edition)
- The Mid-Twentieth Century: 1920-1960 - Short Fiction (Critical Survey of Short Fiction, Second Revised Edition)
- The Turn of the Twentieth Century: 1880-1920 - Short Fiction (Critical Survey of Short Fiction, Second Revised Edition)
- The Holy Sinner (Masterplots II: World Fiction Series)
- Joseph and His Brothers (Masterplots II: World Fiction Series)
- The Transposed Heads (Masterplots II: World Fiction Series)
- The Magic Mountain (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
- Buddenbrooks (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
- Doctor Faustus (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
- Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
- The Black Swan (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
- Death in Venice (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
- Little Herr Friedemann (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
- Mario and the Magician (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
- Tonio Kröger (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
- Tristan (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
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- Author: Thomas Mann
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Thomas Mann (mahn) presents a complex intellectual and aesthetic physiognomy, primarily in the area of long and short fiction, though for many he is equally powerful as an autobiographical, literary-critical, or political essayist. Alongside his novels and novelettes stand his novellas and short stories; the two types of fiction are often mixed in collections such as Ausgewahlte Erzählungen (1945).
A true twentieth century classical author, Mann spanned...
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