The Tables Of The Law

Brilliant . . . a little masterpiece.Chicago SunTimes Book WeekCanrank with the best of Manns writing.The Boston GlobeMagnificent . . .one of the greatest bits ... » 

Brilliant . . . a little masterpiece.Chicago SunTimes Book WeekCanrank with the best of Manns writing.The Boston GlobeMagnificent . . .one of the greatest bits of writing which one of the worlds greatest writershas ever given us.Chicago HeraldAmericanBrilliant . . . one of thosesplendid novelettes which in this reviewers opinion represent the very essenceof Mr. Manns literary art.Saturday Review of LiteratureThe Tables ofthe Law recounts the early life of Moses his preparations for leading hispeople out of Egypt the exodus itself and the incidents at the oasis Kadeshand the engraving of the stone tables of the law at Sinai. In Thomas Mannsironic and telling style this most dramatic and significant story in theHebrew Bible takes on a new and at times witty life and meaning. LikeJoseph and His Brothers it represents Manns art at its best. He who daresto retell the story of the exodus must be bold but to succeed he must beinspired as well. Here one would say Mann was inspired.Newly translated fromthe German by Marion Faber and Stephen Lehmann.Thomas Mann 18751955 wonthe Nobel Prize for Literature in 1929. His many works include BuddenbrooksThe Magic Mountain and Confessions of Felix Krull. «