Mann's handling of these concerns in this story of a middle-aged German writer, torn by his passion for a Polish youth met on holiday in Venice, resulted in a work of great psychological intensity and tragic power.

This edition provides an excellent new translation and extensive commentary on many facets of the story.

DIVAn author's infatuation with a handsome youth has fatal consequences in Death in Venice. A Man and His Dog is a charming essay about Mann's canine companion. Excellent English translations by Appelbaum. /div

Two works by one of the 20th-century's great writers. In Death in Venice, a renowned author finds himself infatuated by a young boy — an attraction that proves fatal.

Mann’s handling of these concerns in this story of a middle-aged German writer, torn by his passion for a Polish youth met on holiday in Venice, resulted in a work of great psychological intensity and tragic power.

This volumes includes eight stories by Thomas Mann: Death in Venice Tonio Kröger Mario and the Magician Disorder and Early Sorrow A Man and his Dog The Blood of the Walsungs Tristan Felix Krull

Eight complex stories illustrative of the author's belief that "a story must tell itself," highlighted by the high art style of the famous title novella.

Death in Venice, Thomas Mann's intensely moving elegy for a man trapped between myth and modernity, was written at the peak of his powers.

The world-famous masterpiece by Nobel laureate Thomas Mann—here in a new translation by Michael Henry Heim Published on the eve of World War I, a decade after Buddenbrooks had established Thomas Mann as a literary celebrity, Death in ...