Thomas Mann's most important works
The top 3 according to 0 votes from people: Buddenbrooks · The Magic Mountain · Death in Venice. (Updated May 29, 2021.)
The Nobel laureate's novels and novellas named again and again in schools, criticism and best-of lists, from Buddenbrooks to Felix Krull.
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Top 15
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Buddenbrooks
1901. The decline of a Lübeck merchant family; the basis of his 1929 Nobel Prize.
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The Magic Mountain
1924. Seven years in a Davos sanatorium.
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Death in Venice
1912. A writer and his last passion.
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Doctor Faustus
1947. A composer who sells his soul.
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Tonio Kröger
1903. An artist between bourgeois life and art.
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Joseph and His Brothers
1933-1943. The biblical Joseph story in four volumes.
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Confessions of Felix Krull
1954. A charming con man tells his story.
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Mario and the Magician
1930. A magician as an image of fascism.
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Lotte in Weimar
1939. Goethe's youthful love visits Weimar.
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Royal Highness
1909. A prince and a rich American woman.
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Tristan
1903. A novella set in a sanatorium.
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12
Little Herr Friedemann
1897. An early story about an outsider.
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Gladius Dei
1902. A fanatic against a Munich art shop.
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The Holy Sinner
1951. A medieval legend retold.
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The Transposed Heads
1940. An Indian legend.
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