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Books by Thomas Mann

Thomas Mann (1875–1955) was a German novelist and Nobel laureate whose work traced the decline of European bourgeois civilization through successive generations. His major novels include Buddenbrooks (1901), Death in Venice (1912), The Magic Mountain (1924), and Doctor Faustus (1947). He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929. He left Germany after Hitler's rise to power in 1933 and spent the war years in the United States, becoming an American citizen in 1944. His essays and broadcasts opposing Nazism gave him a public role in addition to his literary one.