Thomas Manns first novel Buddenbrooks is drawn from his own life andexperience. His story of a prosperous Hanseatic merchant family and theirgradual disintegrat... » 

Thomas Manns first novel Buddenbrooks is drawn from his own life andexperience. His story of a prosperous Hanseatic merchant family and theirgradual disintegration is also an extraordinary portrayal of the transitionfrom the stable bourgeois life of the nineteenth century to a modernuncertainty.Thomas Manns first novel Buddenbrooks is drawn from his own life and experience. Subtitled The Decline of a Family his story of a prosperous Hanseatic merchant family and their gradual disintegration is also an extraordinary portrayal of the transition from the stable bourgeois life of the nineteenth century to a modern uncertainty. Published in 1902 Buddenbrooks was already a classic in Germany before it was banned and burned by Hitler. In it Manns psychology is exact and incisive his ironic and leisurely style already developed. Thomas Manns first novel Buddenbrooks is drawn from his own life and experience. Subtitled The Decline of a Family his story of a prosperous Hanseatic merchant family and their gradual disintegration is also an extraordinary portrayal of the transition from the stable bourgeois life of the nineteenth century to a modern uncertainty. Published in 1902 Buddenbrooks was already a classic in Germany before it was banned and burned by Hitler. In it Manns psychology is exact and incisive his ironic and leisurely style already developed. Thomas Manns first novel Buddenbrooks is drawn from his own life and experience. Subtitled The Decline of a Family his story of a prosperous Hanseatic merchant family and their gradual disintegration is also an extraordinary portrayal of the transition from the stable bourgeois life of the nineteenth century to a modern uncertainty. Published in 1902 Buddenbrooks was already a classic in Germany before it was banned and burned by Hitler. In it Manns psychology is exact and incisive his ironic and leisurely style already developed. «