Thomas Mann's first novel, 'Buddenbrooks', is drawn from his own life and
experience. His story of a prosperous Hanseatic merchant family and their
gradual disintegration is also an extraordinary portrayal of the transition
from the stable bourgeois life of the nineteenth century to a modern uncertainty. Discover Mann's Nobel Prizewinning semi-autobiographical and sweeping family epic. The Buddenbrook clan is everything you'd expect of a nineteenth-century German merchant family - wealthy, esteemed, established.
