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Buddenbrooks

by Thomas Mann

First published
1901
Pages
591
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  1. Part 1, chapter 1

    16:36

  2. Part 1, chapter 2

    8:31

  3. Part 1, chapter 3

    6:04

  4. Part 1, chapter 4

    13:20

  5. Part 1, chapter 5

    11:22

  6. Part 1, chapter 6

    6:13

  7. Part 1, chapter 7

    5:09

  8. Part 1, chapter 8

    11:24

  9. Part 1, chapter 9

    4:31

  10. Part 1, chapter 10

    13:48

  11. Part 2, chapter 1

    19:44

  12. Part 2, chapter 2

    13:04

  13. Part 2, chapter 3

    8:18

  14. Part 2, chapter 4

    13:21

  15. Part 2, chapter 5

    12:57

  16. Part 2, chapter 6

    10:03

  17. Part 2, chapter 7

    17:38

  18. Part 3, chapter 1

    19:17

  19. Part 3, chapter 2

    16:40

  20. Part 3, chapter 3

    11:49

  21. Part 3, chapter 4

    8:47

  22. Part 3, chapter 5

    18:00

  23. Part 3, chapter 6

    10:33

  24. Part 3, chapter 7

    11:38

  25. Part 3, chapter 8

    17:07

  26. Part 3, chapter 9

    9:13

  27. Part 3, chapter 10

    6:30

  28. Part 3, chapter 11

    11:32

  29. Part 3, chapter 12

    6:34

  30. Part 3, chapter 13

    8:33

  31. Part 3, chapter 14

    13:22

  32. Part 3, chapter 15

    8:19

  33. Part 4, chapter 1

    14:11

  34. Part 4, chapter 2

    10:21

  35. Part 4, chapter 3

    27:45

  36. Part 4, chapter 4

    7:53

  37. Part 4, chapter 5

    9:46

  38. Part 4, chapter 6

    19:58

  39. Part 4, chapter 7

    22:26

  40. Part 4, chapter 8

    20:28

  41. Part 4, chapter 9

    5:08

  42. Part 4, chapter 10

    27:53

  43. Part 4, chapter 11

    12:25

  44. Part 5, chapter 1

    21:03

  45. Part 5, chapter 2

    18:31

  46. Part 5, chapter 3

    18:34

  47. Part 5, chapter 4

    7:28

  48. Part 5, chapter 5

    13:42

  49. Part 5, chapter 6

    8:09

  50. Part 5, chapter 7

    8:48

  51. Part 5, chapter 8

    17:56

  52. Part 5, chapter 9

    13:47

  53. Part 6, chapter 1

    11:58

  54. Part 6, chapter 2

    13:26

  55. Part 6, chapter 3

    17:36

  56. Part 6, chapter 4

    25:44

  57. Part 6, chapter 5

    18:20

  58. Part 6, chapter 6

    34:42

  59. Part 6, chapter 7

    18:19

  60. Part 6, chapter 8

    13:48

  61. Part 6, chapter 9

    19:50

  62. Part 6, chapter 10

    28:32

  63. Part 6, chapter 11

    11:13

  64. Part 7, chapter 1

    19:57

  65. Part 7, chapter 2

    9:42

  66. Part 7, chapter 3

    15:01

  67. Part 7, chapter 4

    12:36

  68. Part 7, chapter 5

    20:17

  69. Part 7, chapter 6

    13:16

  70. Part 7, chapter 7

    10:08

  71. Part 7, chapter 8

    4:15

  72. Part 8, chapter 1

    30:28

  73. Part 8, chapter 2

    21:12

  74. Part 8, chapter 3

    13:03

  75. Part 8, chapter 4

    26:33

  76. Part 8, chapter 5

    42:04

  77. Part 8, chapter 6

    32:03

  78. Part 8, chapter 7

    36:03

  79. Part 8, chapter 8a

    27:44

  80. Part 8, chapter 8b

    31:55

  81. Part 8, chapter 9

    11:51

  82. Part 9, chapter 1

    31:10

  83. Part 9, chapter 2

    39:36

  84. Part 9, chapter 3

    12:57

  85. Part 9, chapter 4

    38:19

  86. Part 10, chapter 1

    19:53

  87. Part 10, chapter 2

    25:33

  88. Part 10, chapter 3

    25:20

  89. Part 10, chapter 4

    6:18

  90. Part 10, chapter 5

    47:47

  91. Part 10, chapter 6

    25:13

  92. Part 10, chapter 7

    18:33

  93. Part 10, chapter 8

    18:45

  94. Part 10, chapter 9

    12:16

  95. Part 11, chapter 1

    16:44

  96. Part 11, chapter 2a

    41:10

  97. Part 11, chapter 2b

    38:42

  98. Part 11, chapter 2c

    42:49

  99. Part 11, chapter 3

    8:26

  100. Part 11, chapter 4

    11:41

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About this book

Thomas Mann was only twenty-five when he published this panoramic chronicle of a merchant dynasty's slow unraveling, the novel that would later anchor his Nobel Prize. Across four generations, from the 1830s into the 1870s, the respectable Buddenbrooks of Lubeck accumulate wealth and civic standing, then gradually lose their grip as commercial vigor gives way to sensitivity, doubt, and ill health. Drawing on his own family's history, Mann traces how the practical instincts that built the firm curdle into introspection and artistic longing in the sons who inherit it. The result is both an intimate family portrait and a study of a whole social class in decline. Ironic, precise, and quietly moving, it remains one of the landmark German novels. A free PDF and EPUB edition is available here.

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Thomas Mann

Mann finished Buddenbrooks at twenty-five, a chronicle of four generations of a Lubeck merchant family modelled closely enough on his own that the city took offence, and the Nobel committee cited it above everything else when it gave him the prize in 1929.

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Book facts

First published
1901
Reading time
About 17 hours
Pages
591
Language
English
Formats
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Audio read by
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