Reading I've liked; a personal selection drawn from two decades of reading and reviewing, presented with an informal prologue and various commentaries,

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The stature of Thomas Mann by Neider, Charles, 1915-2001

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Death in Venice and other stories by Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955

Table of Contents: “…Death in Vinice --Tonio Kroger -- Mario and the magician -- Disorder and early sorrow -- A man and his dog -- The blood of the Walsungs -- Tristan.…”


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Death in Venice, Tonio Kröger, and other writings by Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955

Table of Contents: “…Tonio Kröger -- Tristan -- Death in Venice -- The blood of the Walsungs -- Mario and the magician -- The tables of the law -- Freud and the future -- A brother -- Germany and the Germans.…”


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Death in Venice and seven other stories by Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955

Table of Contents: “…Death in Venice -- Tonio Kroger -- Mario and the magician -- Disorder and early sorrow -- A man and his dog -- The blood of the Walsungs -- Tristan -- Felix Krull.…”


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Death in Venice, and seven other stories; by Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955

Table of Contents: “…--Tonio Kröger.--Mario and the magician.--Disorder and early sorrow.--A man and his dog.…”


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Death in Venice, and seven other stories by Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955

Table of Contents: “…Death in Venice -- Tonio Kroger -- Mario and the magician -- Disorder and early sorrow -- A man and his dog -- The blood of the Walsungs -- Tristan -- Felix Krull.…”


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Death in Venice and seven other stories by Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955

Table of Contents: “…Death in Venice -- Tonio Kroger -- Mario and the magician --Disorder and early sorrow -- A man and his dog -- The blood of the Walsungs -- Tristan -- Felix Krull.…”


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Death in Venice, and seven other stories by Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955

Table of Contents: “…Death in Venice -- Tonio Kroger -- Mario and the magician -- Disorder and early sorrow -- A man and his dog -- The blood of the Walsungs -- Tristan -- Felix Krull.…”


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Death in Venice : and seven other stories by Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955

Table of Contents: “…--Tonio Kröger.--Mario and the magician.--Disorder and early sorrow.--A man and his dog.…”


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Death in Venice and seven other stories by Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955

Table of Contents: “…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.…”


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Gateway to the great books

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Thomas Mann by Travers, Martin

Table of Contents: “…Thomas Mann : Between patrician and artist -- Decadence and the decline of the family : Buddenbrooks -- The artist and society : Tristan, Tonio Kröger and the early stories -- Liebestod : Death in Venice -- Sickness, knowledge and the formation of self : The Magic mountain -- The call to unreason : Mario and the magician -- Myth and counter-myth : the Joseph tetralogy -- Thomas Mann and the Germans : Doctor Faustus -- The play of eroticism : The confessions of Felix Krull -- Conclusion : Thomas Mann : A modern novelist?…”


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Twelve short stories

Table of Contents: “…--A rose for Emily, by W. Faulkner.--Mario and the magician, by T. Mann.--Europe, by H. James.--The secret sharer, by J. …”


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Sixteen short novels : an anthology

Table of Contents: “…Andrea / John O'Hara -- The old maid / Edith Wharton -- Tortilla Flat / John Steinbeck -- Mario and the magician / Thomas Mann -- Pudd'nhead Wilson / Mark Twain -- Ward no. 6 / Anton Chekhov -- Notes from underground / Fyodor Dostoevsky -- The fall / Albert Camus -- Old man / William Faulkner -- Youth / Joseph Conrad -- The lesson of the master / Henry James -- My mortal enemy / Willa Cather -- The ghost writer / Philip Roth -- The ebony tower / John Fowles -- Catholics / Brian Moore -- The blacking factory / Wilfrid Sheed.…”


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Nine modern classics; an anthology of short novels

Table of Contents: “…Tolstoy -- Heart of darkness / Joseph Conrad -- The metamorphosis / Franz Kafka -- Cane / Jean Toomer -- Mario and the magician / Thomas Mann -- Old man / William Faulkner -- One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich / Alexander Solzhenitsyn.…”


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Eleven modern short novels. by Hamalian, Leo, 1920-2003

Table of Contents: “…--The pastoral symphony, by A. Gide.--Mario and the magician, by T. Mann.--Old man, by W. Faulkner.…”


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Ten modern short novels by Hamalian, Leo

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Sixteen short novels : an anthology

Table of Contents: “…Andrea / John O'Hara -- The Old maid / Edith Wharton -- Tortilla Flat / John Steinbeck -- Mario and the magician / Thomas Mann -- Pudd'nhead Wilson / Mark Twain -- Ward no. 6 / Anton Chekhov -- Notes from underground / Fyodor Dostoevsky -- The Fall / Albert Camus -- Old man / William Faulkner -- Youth / Joseph Conrad -- The Lesson of the master / Henry James -- My mortal enemy / Willa Cather -- The Ghost writer / Philip Roth -- The Ebony tower / John Fowles / Catholics / Brian Moore -- The Blacking factory / Wilfrid Streed.…”


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Halldór Laxness, Maurice Maeterlinck [and] Thomas Mann.

Table of Contents: “…The magic mountain (excerpt). Mario and the magician. The life and works of Thomas Mann. …”


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