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Book SynopsisA brilliant . . . perfectly nuanced translation (The Boston Globe) of Thomas Mann's greatest short works
A Penguin ClassicFeaturing his world-famous masterpiece, Death in Venice, this collection of Nobel laureate Thomas Mann's stories and novellas reveals his artistic evolution. In a widely acclaimed translation that restores the controversial passages that were censored from the original English version, Death in Venice tells about a ruinous quest for love and beauty amid degenerating splendor. Gustav von Aschenbach, a successful but lonely author, travels to the Queen of the Adriatic in search of an elusive spiritual fulfillment that turns into his erotic doom. Spellbound by a beautiful Polish boy, he finds himself fettered to this hypnotic city of sun-drenched sensuality and eerie physical decay as it gradually succumbs to a secret epidemic.
Also included in this volume are eleven other stories by Mann: Tonio Kroger, Gladius Dei, The Blood of the
