Tonio Krger and other stories Author:Thomas Mann Thomas Mann, Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature — "I see before me a host of human shadowy figures whose gestures implore me to cast upon them the spell which shall be their deliverance: tragic and comic figures, and some that are both at once - and to these I am deeply attracted. But my deepest and most secret love belongs to the fair-haire... more »d and the blue-eyed, the bright children of life, the happy, the charming and the ordinary."
Six stories of decadence, perversity, pathos, and love by the author of The Magic Mountain and Buddenbrooks.« less