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Buddenbrooks
by Thomas Mann
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Across four generations, the Buddenbrook family attempts to preserve the standing of its prosperous trading house in a northern German city. Business decisions, marriages, private disappointments, and changing social expectations gradually expose differences between the family’s public confidence and its members’ inner lives. Thomas Mann gives substantial attention to meals, conversation, domestic rituals, and the small calculations through which respectability is maintained. The result is an expansive family chronicle, rich in irony and sharply drawn personalities, in which commercial duty repeatedly encounters artistic longing, personal vulnerability, and the difficulty of inheriting someone else’s idea of success.
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