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Joseph and His Brothers
Hardback
Main Details
Title |
Joseph and His Brothers
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Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Thomas Mann
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Series | Everyman's Library CLASSICS |
Physical Properties |
Format:Hardback | Pages:1536 | Dimensions(mm): Height 210,Width 135 |
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Category/Genre | Classic fiction (pre c 1945) |
ISBN/Barcode |
9781857152876
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Classifications | Dewey:833.912 833.912 |
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Publishing Details |
Publisher |
Everyman
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Imprint |
Everyman's Library
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Publication Date |
10 March 2005 |
Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
Thomas Mann regarded his monumental retelling of the biblical story of Joseph as his magnum opus. He conceived of the four parts - The Stories of Jacob, The Young Joseph, Joseph in Egypt and Joseph the Provider - as a unified narrative, a 'mythological novel' of Joseph's fall into slavery and his rise to be lord over Egypt. The result, twelve years in the writing, is a brilliant amalgam of humour, emotion, psychological insight and epic grandeur. Now the award-winning translator John E. Woods gives us a definitive new English version of Joseph and His Brothers that is worthy of Mann's achievement. Woods strips away the heavy, awkward, 'biblical' diction of the original translator to reveal the novel's exuberant polyphony of ancient and modern voices, a rich music that is by turns elegant, coarse and sublime.
Author Biography
Thomas Mann was born in 1875 in Germany. He was only twenty-five when his first novel, Buddenbrooks, was published. In 1924 The Magic Mountain was published, and, five years later, Mann was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Following the rise of the Nazis to power, he left Germany for good in 1933 to live in Switzerland and then in California, where he wrote Doctor Faustus (first published in the United States in 1948). Thomas Mann died in 1955.
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