Joseph And His Brothers - Softcover

Thomas Mann

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140045457 ISBN 13: 9780140045451

Publisher: Penguin Books, 1978

Synopsis

Joseph and His Brothers

About this title

About the Author:

Thomas Mann was born in 1875 in Germany. He was only twenty-five when his first novel, Buddenbrooks, was published. In 1924 The Magic Mountain was published, and, five years later, Mann was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Following the rise of the Nazis to power, he left Germany for good in 1933 to live in Switzerland and then in California, where he wrote Doctor Faustus (first published in the United States in 1948). Thomas Mann died in 1955.

Review:

“This excellent new translation by John E. Woods is a cause for celebration: first, because Joseph and His Brothers is in fact a great novel that will now be discovered by a new generation of readers; and second, because Woods himself is to be credited with an extraordinary achievement . . . Woods tackles the challenges of Mann’s wide-ranging diction with exuberance . . . Mann has finally found his ideal English translator.” –New Republic, Ruth Franklin

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Publication date: 1978
• ISBN 10: 0140045457
• ISBN 13: 9780140045451
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 1232