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Stories of three decades / Thomas Mann ; translated from the German by H. T. Lowe-Porter.
LIBRA - Rare PT2625.A44 A25 1966 Potok copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955.
- Standardized Title:
- Short stories. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955--Translations into English.
- Mann, Thomas.
- Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955.
- Short stories, German--Translations into English.
- Short stories, German.
- German fiction.
- Genre:
- Short stories.
- Penn Provenance:
- Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)
- Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 2 unnumbered pages, ix pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 567 pages, 11 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- [Thirteenth print.].
- Manufacture:
- Kingsport, Tennessee : Printed and bound by The Kingsport Press.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1966.
- Contents:
- Little Herr Friedemann
- Disillusionment
- The dilettante
- Tobias Mindernickel
- Little Lizzy
- The wardrobe
- The way to the churchyard
- Tonio Kröger
- Tristan
- The hungry
- The infant prodigy
- Gladius Dei
- Fiorenza
- A gleam
- At the prophet's
- A weary hour
- The blood of the Walsungs
- Railway accident
- The fight between Jappe and Do Escobar
- Felix Krull
- Death in Venice
- A man and his dog
- Disorder and early sorrow
- Mario and the magician.
- Notes:
- "Published June6, 1936. Reprinted eleven times. Thirteenth printing, October 1966."
- "This is a Borzoi Book published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc."
- Preface (p. [v]-ix) by Thomas Mann.
- "I have arranged these twenty-four tales in their order as they appeared, grouped round the major works - I mean the long novels - which they from time to time accompanied."--Preface.
- "This book was set on the linotype in Janson, a recutting made direct from the type cast from matrices (now in possession of the Stempel foundry, Frankfurt am Main) made by Anton Janson some time between 1660 and 1687."
- "The photograph of Thomas Mann on the front of this jacket was taken by Alfred A. Knopf on Mann's eightieth birthday, June 6, 1955."
- Local Notes:
- Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.
- Potok Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- Potok Collection copy has autograph of "Chaim Potok October 1969 Philadelphia".
- OCLC:
- 32885058
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