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).

Thomas Mann.

A true twentieth century classical author, Mann spanned...

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