{"product_id":"9780749386474","title":"Buddenbrooks","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Mann, Thomas\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eClassic fiction (pre c 1945)\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished on 29 July 1996 by Vintage Publishing (Vintage Classics) in the United Kingdom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback \/ softback | 864 pages\u003cbr\u003e197 x 131 x 33 | 612g\u003cp\u003eDiscover Mann's Nobel Prizewinning semi-autobiographical and sweeping family epic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Buddenbrook clan is everything you'd expect of a nineteenth-century German merchant family - wealthy, esteemed, established. Four generations later, a tide of twentieth-century modernism has gradually disintegrated the bourgeois values on which the Buddenbrooks built their success.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this, Mann's first novel, his astounding, semi-autobiographical family epic, he portrays the transition of genteel Germanic stability to a very modern uncertainty.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Perhaps the first great novel of the 20th century' New York Times\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mann, Thomas","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42465582809272,"sku":"9780749386474","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0509\/1953\/8872\/files\/9780749386474.jpg?v=1734762420","url":"https:\/\/octoberbooks.org\/products\/9780749386474","provider":"October Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}