Letters of Thomas Mann, 1889-1955 / selected and translated from the German by Richard and Clara Winston ; introduction by Richard Winston.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955.

Contributor:

Winston, Richard.

Winston, Clara.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Correspondence. Selections. English. 1990

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955--Correspondence.

Mann, Thomas.

Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955.

Novelists, German--20th century--Correspondence.

Novelists, German.

Genre:

Records and correspondence.

Autobiographies.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xlv, 482, xviii pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 1990.

Summary:

This selection of Thomas Mann's letters spans sixty-six years, from the first, written in 1889 by a precocious fourteen-year-old, to the last, composed on his deathbed in 1955 by the eighty-year-old Nobel Laureate and world figure. Covering two world wars and exile in America and Europe, these letters offer the reader insight into the concerns and values of one of the great writers of our time. Here Mann reveals himself to his family as well as to such celebrated contemporaries as Gide, Freud, Zweig, Brecht, Einstein, Hesse, Schoenberg, and Adorno.

Notes:

Reprint. Originally published: New York : Vintage Books, 1975.

Most of the letters in this book were first published in a three-volume collection for S. Fischer Verlag, Thomas Mann Briefe, 1889-1936, 1937-1947, 1948-1955.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0520070046

9780520070042

0520069684

9780520069688

OCLC:

20566812

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