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Bergtagen

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Storpocket, Svenska, 2025

159 kr

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 livets gåtor med Herr Settembrini. I den instängda och känsloladdade miljön möter Hans de dominerande tankeströmningarna på 1920-talet och sanatoriet blir en bild för det sjuka Europa.

Med det majestätiska alplandskapet som effektfull bakgrund utvecklas han från en ung man till en vuxen människa. Han återvänder inte hem förrän han måste dra ut i Första världskriget.

Thomas Mann (1875–1955) fick nobelpriset 1929 och räknas till en av Tysklands största författare. En kritikerröst: ”Han har bevisat att det fortfarande är möjligt att skriv stora, fundamentalt originella och relevanta romaner”

Delfinserien har i mer än trettio år stått för kvalitativ pocketutgivning. Idag består serien av moderna klassiker av internationellt snitt.

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Doktor Faustus

3

Häftad, Svenska, 2015

289 kr

Doktor Faustus, Thomas Manns roman om den framstående tonsättaren Adrian Leverkühn som ingår ett avtal med djävulen för att få förbli konstnärligt nyskapande under en lång följd av år, kommer nu i ny översättning. Det är en av 1900-talets epokgörande romaner. Den kom ut på tyska 1947, och ett av romanens motiv är parallellen med Nazityskland. Leverkühns pakt med sin inre djävul jämförs med Tysklands band med det onda – med Hitler, nationalsocialismen och hela det tänkande som lett dit. Samtidigt är denna mångbottnade bok en samhällsskildring, en konstnärsroman, en självironisk parodi och en essä om konstnärliga uttryck. Thomas Mann hade redan i tidigare romaner använt sig av musiken som ett medel i karaktärsteckningen och han inspirerades av musikens sätt att använda återkommande ledmotiv. Romanens berättare är en ungdomsvän till Leverkühn, den djupt humanistiske Serenus Zeitblom, som efter tonsättarens död berättar om hans framgång och det fruktansvärda priset för den: Adrian Leverkühn måste avstå från all kärlek. De människor han trots allt kommer nära och känner varma känslor för – en violonist och en systerson – förlorar han på de mest smärtsamma vis och när avtalet med djävulen löpt ut drabbas han själv av ett slaganfall som släcker hela hans ande och skaparkraft. Doktor Faustus är det tredje av Thomas Manns mästerverk som kommer i ny svensk översättning av Ulrika Wallenström. Hennes översättningar av Buddenbrooks (2005) och Bergtagen (2011) har fått stor uppmärksamhet och belönats med ett flertal prestigefulla utmärkelser.

Döden i Venedig

Inbunden, Svenska, 2026

269 kr

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Den åldrade författaren Gustav von Aschenbach bestämmer sig för att resa till Venedig för att vila och bli fri från sina inre spänningar. I foajén till hotellet får han syn på en överjordiskt vacker pojke i sjömanskostym. Under dagarna som följer utvecklar Aschenbach en förblindande besatthet av pojken, den fjortonårige Tadzio. Samtidigt börjar illavarslande tecken tyda på att en fruktansvärd sjukdom håller på att sprida sig över staden.

Thomas Manns kortroman Döden i Venedig väcker eviga frågor kring skönhet och förfall, åtrå och moral, och är än i dag ett av den tyskspråkiga litteraturens mest uppskattade och omtalade verk.

I översättning av Karl Vennberg.

THOMAS MANN [1875–1955] var en tysk författare, mest känd för de stora romanerna Huset Buddenbrook [1901] och Bergtagen [1924]. När Hitler tog makten lämnade Thomas Mann Tyskland och bosatte sig i Schweiz, där han fortsatte sitt litterära arbete. Han tilldelades Nobelpriset i litteratur 1929.

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Bergtagen 1

Inbunden, Svenska, 2026

239 kr

En av 1900-talets stora romaner i ny utgåva

När Hans Castorp anländer till det exklusiva sanatoriet i de schweiziska alperna är det för att besöka sin kusin som behandlas där. Sju år senare är Hans fortfarande kvar, nu själv som patient. Tillvaron i det slutna bergslandskapet har tagit formen av ett eget kosmos, frigjort från världen nedanför och på samma gång dess spegling i miniatyr. Här vistas såväl kommunister som kungligheter, och med dem tillbringar Castorp dagarna inbegripen i långa samtal genom vilka hans uppfattning om identitet, politik, konst, kärlek och tid genomgår en fundamental förändring. Samtidigt står hela Europa på randen till krig.Bergtagen publicerades första gången 1924 och räknas som ett av 1900-talets viktigaste litterära verk. Fem år efter att romanen kom ut tilldelades Thomas Mann Nobelpriset i litteratur. Bergtagen ges här ut i två band, varav detta är det första. I svensk översättning av Karin Boye.

THOMAS MANN [1875-1955] var en tysk författare, mest känd för de stora romanerna Huset Buddenbrook [1901] och Bergtagen [1924]. När Hitler tog makten lämnade Thomas Mann Tyskland och bosatte sig i Schweiz, där han fortsatte sitt litterära arbete. Han tilldelades Nobelpriset i litteratur 1929.

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Bergtagen 2

Inbunden, Svenska, 2026

239 kr

En av 1900-talets stora romaner i ny utgåva

När Hans Castorp anländer till det exklusiva sanatoriet i de schweiziska alperna är det för att besöka sin kusin som behandlas där. Sju år senare är Hans fortfarande kvar, nu själv som patient. Tillvaron i det slutna bergslandskapet har tagit formen av ett eget kosmos, frigjort från världen nedanför och på samma gång dess spegling i miniatyr. Här vistas såväl kommunister som kungligheter, och med dem tillbringar Castorp dagarna inbegripen i långa samtal genom vilka hans uppfattning om identitet, politik, konst, kärlek och tid genomgår en fundamental förändring. Samtidigt står hela Europa på randen till krig. Bergtagen publicerades första gången 1924 och räknas som ett av 1900-talets viktigaste litterära verk. Fem år efter att romanen kom ut tilldelades Thomas Mann Nobelpriset i litteratur. Bergtagen ges här ut i två band, varav detta är det andra. I svensk översättning av Karin Boye.

THOMAS MANN [1875-1955] var en tysk författare, mest känd för de stora romanerna Huset Buddenbrook [1901] och Bergtagen [1924]. När Hitler tog makten lämnade Thomas Mann Tyskland och bosatte sig i Schweiz, där han fortsatte sitt litterära arbete. Han tilldelades Nobelpriset i litteratur 1929.

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Buddenbrooks

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Storpocket, Svenska, 2024

161 kr

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"Denna bok kommer att växa med tiden och bli läst av generationer", skrev en tysk recensent när Thomas Manns debutroman Buddenbrooks kom ut 1901. Den skildrar en familjs utveckling under fyra generationer, från köpmän till konstnärer. Thomas Mann härstammade själv från en gammal köpmanssläkt i Lübeck och hans roman bygger i stor utsträckning på hans egna upplevelser. Den smärtsamma slitning som han hade känt inom sig mellan faderns trygga borgerlighet och moderns konstnärstemperament speglas i bokens konflikt mellan livskraftiga vardagsmänniskor och ömtåliga konstnärsnaturer. Därför är Buddenbrooks också mycket mer än en berättelse om en högborgerlig släkts öden. Den är liksom Thomas Manns hela författarskap ett slags andlig självbiografi.

Förord av Per Svensson.

Huset Buddenbrook

Inbunden, Svenska, 2026

296 kr

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En av förra seklets stora romandebuter

Året är 1835 och den välbärgade köpmannafamiljen Buddenbrook har nyss flyttat in i det ståtliga patricierhuset i Lübeck, där de samlat sina vänner till den första av många storslagna middagar. Så inleds ett av den moderna litteraturens största familjedramer, en magnifik släktkrönika som spänner över flera generationer, och som med såväl psykologiskt som andligt djup tecknar den framstående familjens materiella och moraliska förfall. Huset Buddenbrook publicerades 1901. Det var Thomas Manns första roman efter att han tidigare främst skrivit noveller, och den gav honom hans internationella erkännande. Med tiden har romanen översatts till ett fyrtiotal språk och filmatiserats ett flertal gånger. När Thomas Mann tilldelades Nobelpriset i litteratur 1929 nämndes Huset Buddenbrook uttryckligen i motiveringen. I översättning av Walborg Hedberg.

THOMAS MANN [1875-1955] var en tysk författare, mest känd för de stora romanerna Huset Buddenbrook [1901] och Bergtagen [1924]. När Hitler tog makten lämnade Thomas Mann Tyskland och bosatte sig i Schweiz, där han fortsatte sitt litterära arbete. Han tilldelades Nobelpriset i litteratur 1929.

Del 4 - Thomas Mann, Essays

Achtung, Europa!

AvThomas Mann,Hermann Kurzkem. fl.

Inbunden, Tyska, 1995

335 kr

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Der Zauberberg

Häftad, Tyska

254 kr

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Del 90405 - Fischer Taschenbücher Allgemeine Reihe

Fruhe Erzahlungen

Häftad, Tyska, 2012

254 kr

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Buddenbrooks

Häftad, Engelska, 1996

200 kr

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Wealthy, esteemed, and deeply rooted in tradition, the Buddenbrook family epitomises nineteenth-century German bourgeois values.But as the tides of modernity and change sweep through Europe, their once-stable world begins to crumble, along with the tenets on which the Buddenbrooks built their success. Spanning four generations, this semi-autobiographical family epic records the transition of genteel Germanic stability to a very modern uncertainty.'Perhaps the first great novel of the 20th century' New York Times(Cover may vary)

Buddenbrooks

Inbunden, Tyska, 2026

208 kr

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Frihetens problem

2

Kartonnage, Svenska, 2021

141 kr

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I september 1939, ett ögonblick då de totalitära staterna tycktes triumfera, skulle Thomas Mann hålla tal på den internationella PEN-kongressen i Stockholm.

Hans närvaro i Sverige vållade regeringen stor oro. Hur skulle Nazityskland reagera? Utrikesdepartementet ville att Mann skulle avstå från att hålla ett politiskt laddat tal. Det borde ligga på ett högt och allmänt plan med undvikande av personligheter och annat som kan vålla förtret .

Thomas Mann gjorde tvärtom. I en tid av stort mörker höll han upp ett litet ljus för demokratin.

Ett övermått av ondska har nu fått oss att släppa vår skepsis och blygsel inför stora ord som frihet, sanning och rättvisa; vi lyfter dem mot mänsklighetens fiender.

Men kongressen avblåstes i sista minuten när kriget bröt ut och Mann tog sig tillbaka till USA, där han befunnit sig i landsflykt sedan nazisternas maktövertagande.

Talet hölls alltså aldrig men gavs ut i bokform kort därpå. Idag är dess innehåll återigen aktuellt.

Thomas Mann tilldelades Nobelpriset i litteratur 1929, bland utgivningen märks särskilt Buddenbrooks, Doktor Faustus, Bergtagen och Döden i Venedig.

Magic Mountain

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Häftad, Engelska, 1996

169 kr

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As Seen on BBC Between the CoversA brief visit to a Swiss sanatorium becomes a life-altering seven-year odyssey.Hans Castorp arrives at a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps to visit his cousin, intending to stay for just three weeks. But when he falls ill, he remains and is drawn in by the introspection and erudition that define life in the mountains. As his stay extends to seven transformative years, Hans falls in love and becomes intoxicated with the ideas he hears at the clinic - ideas which will strain and crack apart in a world on the verge of the First World War.'Magnificent... a beautiful, feverish account of obsessive love' Jonathan Coe, Guardian'The greatest German novelist of the 20th century' Spectator(Cover may vary)

Del 16172 - Reclam XL - Text und Kontext

Tonio Kröger. Textausgabe mit Kommentar und Materialien

AvThomas Mann,Mario Leism. fl.

Häftad, Tyska, 2026

91 kr

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Death In Venice

Häftad, Engelska, 2005

206 kr

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Death in Venice And Other Stories

Häftad, Engelska, 2001

139 kr

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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 there with his family. Admiration gives way to obsession as his days begin to revolve around seeing the boy. Meanwhile, ominous signs point to a disease spreading through the magnificent, but decaying, city and, blinded by his fixation, Aschenbach fails to notice.Death in Venice is the finale of this seven-story collection, marked by masterful storytelling and profound, often haunting, insight.(Cover may vary)

Library Research Models

A Guide to Classification, Cataloging, and Computers

Häftad, Engelska, 1995

553 kr

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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 perception of the universe of knowledge available to them. Some, for example, use a subject-disciplinary method which leads them to a specific list of sources on a particular subject. But, Mann points out, while this method allows students and researchers to find more specialized sources, it is also limiting--they may not realize that works of interest to their own subject appear within the literature of many other disciplines. A researcher looking through anthropology journals, for example, might not discover that the MLA International Bibliography provides the best coverage of folklore journals.In Library Research Models, Mann examines the several alternative mental models people use to approach the task of research, and demonstrates new, more effective ways of finding information. Drawing on actual examples gleaned from 15 years' experience in helping thousands of researchers, he not only shows the full range of search options possible, but also illuminates the inevitable tradeoffs and losses of access that occur when researchers limit themselves to a specific method. In two chapters devoted to computers he examines the use of electronic resources and reveals their value in providing access to a wide range of sources as well as their disadvantages: what people are not getting when they rely solely on computer searches; why many sources will probably never be in databases; and what the options are for searching beyond computers.Thomas Mann's A Guide to Library Research Methods was widely praised as a definitive manual of library research. Ronald Gross, author of The Independent Scholar's Handbook called it "the savviest such guide I have ever seen--bracingly irreverent and brimming with wisdom." The perfect companion volume, Library Research Models goes even further to provide a fascinating look at the ways in which we can most efficiently gain access to our vast storehouses of knowledge.

The Buddenbrooks

AvThomas Mann,Ritchie Robertson

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

146 kr

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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 family history and on his vivid memories of growing up in the commercial town of Lübeck in North Germany. The narrative traces the decline of a wealthy, established merchant family, from their height during the last decades of the nineteenth century, to the onset of uncertainty in the modern world. The novel displays Mann's interest in decline as a psychological process, where artistic sensibility weakens the ruthless business instincts that founded the Buddenbrooks' prosperity. At the centre is the reluctant businessman Thomas Buddenbrook, a tragic figure who conscientiously dedicates himself to a way of life that gradually undermines him. Mike Mitchell's new English translation is accompanied by Ritchie Robertson's introduction and explanatory notes, illuminating the cultural, philosophical, and personal context of the novel's composition.ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Death in Venice and Other Stories

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

112 kr

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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 larger-scale projects. The acknowledged classic among the early shorter fiction is the novella Death in Venice, in which Mann develops a lyrical style and a range of mythological allusions, through the forbidden love of a middle-aged man for a teenage boy, a theme with roots in Mann's own emotional experience. In many of his shorter works, Mann uses irony and humour to treat the conflict between sensitive, often artistic souls and the vital, often brutal forces of life. The stories, usually about isolated figures, convey a mixture of humour, sadness, and irony which invites ambivalent responses from readers. This new set of translations by Ritchie Robertson and Nicola Luckhurst is accompanied by explanatory notes and introduction.ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Mario and the Magician and Other Late Stories

AvThomas Mann,Ritchie Robertson

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

123 kr

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Thomas Mann's later short stories published between 1925 and 1953 explore his abiding interest in human nature and his surroundings. Disorder and Early Sorrow and Mario and the Magician originate from Mann's own experiences: domestic life at the height of inflation under the early Weimar Republic; and a symbolic encounter with Fascism during an Italian holiday. The Transposed Heads: An Indian Legend is tongue-in-cheek legend set in ancient times and The Law is a subtly ironic narrative about Moses and the Ten Commandments, after which Mann returns to 1920s Germany with The Black Swan, a story of an aging woman's passion for a young American, confronting the taboo subject of cancer. The stories illustrate Mann's progression from domestic realism to an elaborate 'late style' with mythic overtones. This collection shows the continuing literary development of one of Europe's most important writers.ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Doctor Faustus

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

146 kr

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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 and success. Creative and brilliant, he will stop at nothing to achieve greatness. Thomas Mann wrote Doctor Faustus (1947) in American exile during and just after the Second World War. A prominent and long-standing defender of democracy, he sought to understand, in cultural and intellectual terms, how Germany had succumbed to Nazism. Mann structures his story through references to the German legend of Faust and his pact with the Devil. The life of the solitary composer, an ultimately tragic figure, is recounted by his friend and biographer, who represents a sadly ineffectual humanism, and whose social activities provide a panorama of middle-class German society in the early twentieth century. Ritchie Robertson's new English translation is accompanied by detailed annotations and an introduction illuminating the themes of the novel.ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

The Oxford Guide to Library Research

How to Find Reliable Information Online and Offline

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

1 227 kr

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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 text to reflect those changes. This book will answer two basic questions: First, what is the extent of the significant research resources you will you miss if you confine your research entirely, or even primarily, to sources available on the open Internet? Second, if you are trying to get a reasonably good overview of the literature on a particular topic, rather than just "something quickly" on it, what are the several alternative methods of subject searching--which are not available on the Web--that are usually much more efficient for that purpose than typing keywords into a blank search box, with the results displayed by relevance-ranking computer algorithms?This book shows researchers how to do comprehensive research on any topic. It explains the variety of search mechanisms available, so that the researcher can have the reasonable confidence that s/he has not overlooked something important. This includes not just lists of resources, but discussions of the ways to search within them: how to find the best search terms, how to combine the terms, and how to make the databases (and other sources) show relevant material even when you don't know how to specify the best search terms in advance. The book's overall structuring by nine methods of searching that are applicable in any subject area, rather than by subjects or by types of literature, is unique among guides to research. Also unique is the range and variety of concrete examples of what to do--and of what not to do. The book is not "about" the Internet: it is about the best alternatives to the Internet--the sources that are not on the open Web to begin with, that can be found only through research libraries and that are more than ever necessary for any kind of substantive scholarly research. More than any other research guide available, this book directly addresses and provides solutions to the serious problems outlined in recent studies documenting the profound lack of research skills possessed by today's "digital natives."

The Oxford Guide to Library Research

How to Find Reliable Information Online and Offline

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

321 kr

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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 text to reflect those changes. This book will answer two basic questions: First, what is the extent of the significant research resources you will you miss if you confine your research entirely, or even primarily, to sources available on the open Internet? Second, if you are trying to get a reasonably good overview of the literature on a particular topic, rather than just "something quickly" on it, what are the several alternative methods of subject searching--which are not available on the Web--that are usually much more efficient for that purpose than typing keywords into a blank search box, with the results displayed by relevance-ranking computer algorithms?This book shows researchers how to do comprehensive research on any topic. It explains the variety of search mechanisms available, so that the researcher can have the reasonable confidence that s/he has not overlooked something important. This includes not just lists of resources, but discussions of the ways to search within them: how to find the best search terms, how to combine the terms, and how to make the databases (and other sources) show relevant material even when you don't know how to specify the best search terms in advance. The book's overall structuring by nine methods of searching that are applicable in any subject area, rather than by subjects or by types of literature, is unique among guides to research. Also unique is the range and variety of concrete examples of what to do--and of what not to do. The book is not "about" the Internet: it is about the best alternatives to the Internet--the sources that are not on the open Web to begin with, that can be found only through research libraries and that are more than ever necessary for any kind of substantive scholarly research. More than any other research guide available, this book directly addresses and provides solutions to the serious problems outlined in recent studies documenting the profound lack of research skills possessed by today's "digital natives."

Buddenbrooks

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

180 kr

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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 is one of the original, and greatest, of family chronicles: the story of four generations of a wealthy and bourgeois German dynasty as they experience all the anguish and rewards of human life: births, marriages, divorces, deaths, madness, artistic achievement and bankruptcy. Thomas Mann’s first novel is a richly realized, profoundly moving saga of ‘the decline of a family’ as it succumbs to the forces of modernity. Published when he was only twenty-five, it was one of the two books for which he won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1929.Translated by John E. Woods

Doctor Faustus

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

170 kr

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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 middle-aged scholar retires to his study to reflect on the life and untimely death of his friend, a once-brilliant composer and the flower of German culture. He recalls how, consumed by over-reaching ambition, this friend made an unholy bargain in return for creative genius. How he enjoyed twenty-four years of unrivalled success and musical achievement – until, inevitably, he had to pay his dues. A reworking of the classic Faust legend, Doctor Faustus is one of the twentieth century’s finest novels: a powerful allegory of the rise of the Nazism, and a warning against the seductive attractions of nihilism.Translated by John E. Woods

Magic Mountain

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

169 kr

Kommande

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 is summer time in the Swiss Alps. Hans Castorp, an ‘ordinary young man’, has arrived at an exclusive sanitorium for a brief visit to his convalescent cousin. Once there, time will lose its familiar contours, as Hans himself falls ill and abandons himself in an intoxicating landscape of dreams, beauty and eternal snow. The Magic Mountain is Thomas Mann’s masterpiece: a Bildungsroman that is also an allegory of Europe before the devastations of the First World War, and a mysterious meditation on time, art, sickness and death.Translated by John E. Woods

Joseph and His Brothers

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

261 kr

Kommande

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 regime tried to sabotage its first publication. This lavish, sweeping saga retells the Biblical story of Joseph, whose dreams and visions set him apart from his siblings and lead him first to slavery and ultimately to power and prestige. With rich detail and unexpected humour, Mann paints the lost landscapes of Egypt and Canaan and brings to life the great characters of Genesis – patriarchs, pharaohs, avenged sisters and jealous brothers – in a chronicle of epic grandeur, with a family drama at its heart.Translated by John E. Woods

Financing Information Services

Problems, Changing Approaches, and New Opportunities for Academic and Research Libraries

AvPeter Spyers-Duran,Thomas Mannm. fl.

Inbunden, Engelska, 1985

1 120 kr

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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 these libraries? The twelve essays collected by Spyers-Duran and Mann attempt to answer this question. Section I: Problems, contains essays on the precarious financial environment of today's academic institutions; the erosion of funding levels in British university libraries; and realistic suggestions for financial planning in academic libraries. Section II: Changing Approaches, offers discussions on the importance of sharing scholarly resources; the discrepancy between library budgets and services offered; the growing role of the library in the information industry; a review of funding formulas in the academic library; and the changing needs, sources, and styles of financial planning. The final section of the book explores new opportunities for academic and research libraries, and includes information on current library automation; information-sharing among member libraries; external contracting for library services; and grantsmanship.

Doctor Faustus: The Life of the German Composer Adrian Leverkuhn as Told by a Friend

Häftad, Engelska, 1999

292 kr

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