EVERYMAN’s LIBRARY
Herewith our current stock of fiction and nonfiction titles from the fine Everyman’s Library. All hardcovers, all sewn-bound with a silk ribbon to keep your place, all with a chronology of the author’s life and literary and world events, all with discerning introductions, all with appropriate notes supporting the texts. I will write more soon about the long and honorable history of Everyman’s Library, its high production values, and the special features in every volume. For now, enjoy!
The listings are alphabetical by author’s last name.
Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family
Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family
First published in 1901, when Thomas Mann was only twenty-five, Buddenbrooks is a minutely imagined chronicle of four generations of a North German mercantile family – a work so true to life that it scandalized the author’s former neighbours in his native Lübeck. As he charts the Buddenbrooks’ decline from prosperity to bankruptcy, from moral and psychic soundness to sickly piety, artistic decadence and madness, Mann ushers the reader into a world of vitality, pieced together from births and funerals, weddings and divorces, recipes, gossip and earthy humour.