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A Study Guide for Thomas Mann's "Death in Venice" by Cengage Learning Gale 9781375378703
RRP: $12.84Booksplease Price: $12.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781375378703Author Cengage Learning GaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 38I -
Horror and Mystery Photoplay Editions and Magazine Fictionizations, Volume II (Hardback) by Thomas Mann 9781629330723
RRP: $29.28Booksplease Price: $23.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629330723Author Thomas MannFormat HardbackPage Count 118Imprint -
The Arrow and the Lyre: A Study of the Role of Love in the Works of Thomas Mann by Frank Donald Hirschbach 9789401745864
Booksplease Price: $59.70When I first thought about this topic I encountered many ex pressions of surprise among my better-read friends, and a number of them asked me: "Is there really much love in Thomas Mann's works, and... -
The Torch Murders: The Brutal Slaying of Four Teens in Rural Michigan by James Thomas Mann 9781467158756
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $20.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467158756Author James Thomas MannFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint -
Meeting Thomas Mann and Susan Sontag A Fictional Short Story by Jorge Pinto Mazal 9798990929920
Booksplease Price: $6.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798990929920Author Jorge Pinto MazalFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint < -
Politics, Death, and the Devil: Self and Power in Max Weber and Thomas Mann by Harvey Goldman 9780520077508
RRP: $68.37Booksplease Price: $61.86This sequel to Harvey Goldman's well-received Max Weber and Thomas Mann continues his rich exploration of the political and cultural critiques embodied in the more mature writings of these two... -
The Magic Mountain: A Study of Thomas Mann's Novel Der Zauberberg by Hermann J. Weigand 9781469658605
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $22.24Praised highly by Mann himself, Weigand's book (originally published in 1933) is an essential piece of criticism on Mann's monumental novel. In his study of The Magic Mountain Weigand comments on... -
Flirtations: Rhetoric and Aesthetics This Side of Seduction by Daniel Hoffman-Schwartz
Booksplease Price: $32.59What is flirtation, and how does it differ from seduction? In historical terms, the particular question of flirtation has tended to be obscured by that of seduction, which has understandably been a... -
The Homosexual Revival of Renaissance Style, 1850-1930 by Yvonne Ivory 9780230219977
Booksplease Price: $59.70Why were so many late-nineteenth-century homosexuals passionate about the Italian Renaissance? This book answers that question by showing how the Victorian coupling of criminality with... -
The Doctor Faustus Dossier: Arnold Schoenberg, Thomas Mann, and Their Contemporaries, 1930-1951 by Adrian Daub 9780520296824
RRP: $103.20Booksplease Price: $82.03Arnold Schoenberg and Thomas Mann, two towering figures of twentieth-century music and literature, both found refuge in the German-exile community in Los Angeles during the Nazi era. This complete... -
Thomas Mann’s Antifascist Radio Addresses, 1940–1945: Listen, Germany! Jeffrey L. High 9781640141988
RRP: $109.65Booksplease Price: $92.45First complete English translation of Mann's uncannily insightful wartime anti-Nazi radio addresses, once again urgently topical in the context of the current worldwide rise of anti-democratic... -
The Doctor Faustus Dossier: Arnold Schoenberg, Thomas Mann, and Their Contemporaries, 1930-1951 Adrian Daub 9780520296831
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $32.52Arnold Schoenberg and Thomas Mann, two towering figures of twentieth-century music and literature, both found refuge in the German-exile community in Los Angeles during the Nazi era. This complete... -
The German Tradition of Self-Cultivation: 'Bildung' from Humboldt to Thomas Mann by W. H. Bruford 9780521129008
Booksplease Price: $57.17In a lecture in 1923, Thomas Mann said that the ordinary middle-class German had never considered culture to include an interest in politics, and still did not do so. The idea of the true freedom... -
Portraits of the Artist: Dionysian Creativity in Selected Works by Gabriele D'Annunzio and Thomas Mann by Jessica Wood 9781787070035
RRP: $95.07Booksplease Price: $84.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787070035Author Jessica WoodFormat HardbackPage Count 294Imprint -
The Homosexual Revival of Renaissance Style, 1850-1930 by Yvonne Ivory 9781349305483
Booksplease Price: $59.70Why were so many late-nineteenth-century homosexuals passionate about the Italian Renaissance? This book answers that question by showing how the Victorian coupling of criminality with... -
This Little Art by Kate Briggs 9781910695456
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.56An essay with the reach and momentum of a novel, Kate Briggs's This Little Art is a genre-bending song for the practice of literary translation, offering fresh, fierce and timely thinking on reading,... -
The Oxford Guide to Library Research: How to Find Reliable Information Online and Offline by Thomas Mann 9780199931064
RRP: $36.75Booksplease Price: $33.24The information world has undergone drastic changes since the publication of the 3rd edition of The Oxford Guide to Library Research in 2005, and Thomas Mann, a veteran reference librarian at the... -
The Hesse-Mann Letters: The Correspondence of Hermann Hesse and Thomas Mann 1910-1955 by Hermann Hesse 9781934978863
Booksplease Price: $27.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934978863Author Hermann HesseFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint -
Dreamers: When the Writers Took Power, Germany 1918 by Volker Weidermann
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91At the end of the First World War in Germany, the journalist and theatre critic Kurt Eisner organised a revolution which overthrew the monarchy, and declared a Free State of Bavaria. In February... -
Seeing Jaakob: The Poetics of Visuality in Thomas Mann’s "Die Geschichten Jaakobs" by Peter D.G. Brown 9783039119066
RRP: $63.60Booksplease Price: $57.35Despite the considerable amount of scholarship on Mann's work, his tetralogy - composed prior to and during his exile from Nazi Germany - has received less attention and has not been examined from... -
The transformation of restrictive definitions of the feminine into a platform for the critique of patriarchy in Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks by Jil Hoeser 9783668253766
RRP: $29.03Booksplease Price: $22.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783668253766Author Jil HoeserFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint -
The Idea of Music: Schoenberg and others by P. Franklin 9780333400289
RRP: $128.99Booksplease Price: $116.82Why has modern music evolved as it has? Why is it that certain leading composers from the first half of this century are now considered insignificant, while the responsibility for the development of... -
The City And The Pillar by Gore Vidal 9780349147123
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35A literary cause celebre when first published in 1948, Gore Vidal's now-classic The City and the Pillar stands as a landmark novel of the gay experienceJim Willard, former high-school athlete and... -
Narrative Ontology Axel Hutter 9781509543922
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $23.08This book is a critical inquiry into three ideas that have been at the heart of philosophical reflection since time immemorial: freedom, God and immortality. Their inherent connection has disappeared... -
First Letters after Exile by Thomas Mann, Hannah Arendt, Ernst Bloch and Others by David Kettler 9781785276712
RRP: $103.20Booksplease Price: $99.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785276712Author David KettlerFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint -
Hesse: The Wanderer and His Shadow by Gunnar Decker
RRP: $43.80Booksplease Price: $38.06A deftly crafted biography of the author of Siddhartha, whose critique of consumer culture continues to inspire millions of readers.Against the horrors of Nazi dictatorship and widespread... -
Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life by Theodor Adorno
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.31Written between 1944 and 1947, Minima Moralia is a collection of rich, lucid aphorisms and essays about life in modern capitalist society. Adorno casts his penetrating eye across society in... -
Gregorius: A Medieval Oedipus Legend by Hartmann Von Aue 9780807888148
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $20.23Originally published in 1955, this rendering in rhyming couplets was the first English translation to appear of the medieval Oedipus legend of Gregorius, made known to readers by Thomas Mann in his... -
Portrait of the Artist as Hermes: A Study of Myth and Psychology in Thomas Mann's Felix Krull by Donald F. Nelson 9781469658049
Booksplease Price: $30.82Within the framework of Jungian archetypal psychology and utilizing Karl Kerenyi's theories on Hermes and the archetypal symbolism of mother and daughter, this book combines the mythopoeic and... -
Venice for Lovers by Louis Begley 9780802144355
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $13.82Venice for Lovers is a memorable collaboration by two fine stylists who have fashioned their own personal homages to Venice, one with a novella, the other with a personal essay. Every year for all... -
Sympathy for the Abyss: A Study in the Novel of German Modernism: Kafka, Broch, Musil, and Thomas Mann by Stephen D. Dowden 9783484180901
RRP: $129.00Booksplease Price: $88.03No detailed description available for "Sympathy for the Abyss".Book InformationISBN 9783484180901Author Stephen D. DowdenFormat HardbackPage Count 195Imprint -
Why Do We Care about Literary Characters? by Blakey Vermeule
Booksplease Price: $37.50Blakey Vermeule wonders how readers become involved in the lives of fictional characters, people they know do not exist. Vermeule examines the ways in which readers' experiences of literature are... -
London After Midnight: An English Translation of the 1929 French Novelization of the Lost Lon Chaney Film by Thomas Mann 9781629333700
RRP: $19.61Booksplease Price: $19.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629333700Author Thomas MannFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint -
Modernist Time Ecology by Jesse Matz 9781421426990
RRP: $57.41Booksplease Price: $42.44A new view of the way modernist fiction writers tried to solve the problem of time.Do our fictions transform time? Do they cultivate the temporal environment? Such was the hope-or the fantasy-at work... -
The Devil as Muse: Blake, Byron, and the Adversary by Fred Parker 9781602584730
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $24.03Does the Devil lie at the heart of the creative process? In The Devil as Muse, Fred Parker offers an entirely fresh reflection on the age-old question, echoing William Blake's famous statement: "the... -
La Prohibicion del Amor: Sujeto, Cultura y Forma Artistica En Thomas Mann by Fernando Bayon 9788476587010
Booksplease Price: $29.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788476587010Author Fernando BayonFormat HardbackPage Count 414Imprint -
Love in a Dark Time: Gay Lives from Wilde to Almodovar Colm Tóibín 9781035055005
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35In Love in a Dark Time, Colm Toibin looks at the life and work of some of the greatest and most influential artists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Linked by the common thread of their... -
London After Midnight: An English Translation of the 1929 French Novelization of the Lost Lon Chaney Film (hardback) by Thomas Mann 9781629333717
RRP: $29.41Booksplease Price: $27.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629333717Author Thomas MannFormat HardbackPage Count 174Imprint -
Uniform Fantasies: Soldiers, Sex, and Queer Emancipation in Imperial Germany by Jeffrey Schneider
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $28.72Starting in the nineteenth century in Germany, colourful military uniforms became a locus for various queer male fantasies, fostering an underground sexual economy of male prostitution as well as a... -
This Little Art by Kate Briggs 9781804271322
RRP: $51.60Booksplease Price: $43.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804271322Author Kate BriggsFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint