<div><P>The world-famous masterpiece by Nobel laureate Thomas Mann—here in a new translation by Michael Henry Heim</P><P><P>Published on the eve of World War I, a decade after Buddenbrooks had established Thomas Mann as a literary celebrity, Death in Venice tells the story of Gustave von Aschenbach, a successful but aging writer who follows his wanderlust to Venice in search of spiritual fulfillment that instead leads to his erotic doom.</P><P> In the decaying city, besieged by an unnamed epidemic, he becomes obsessed with an exquisite Polish boy, Tadzio. &#8220It is a story of the voluptuousness of doom,&#8221 Mann wrote. &#8220But the problem I had especially in mind was that of the artist’s dignity.&#8221</P></P></div>

Death in Venice

<div><B>This collection of new and classic Christmas literature includes stories by Herman Hesse, Joseph Roth, The Brothers Grimm, and many others.</B><BR />  <BR /> This collection brings together traditional and contemporary holiday stories from Austria, Switzerland, and Germany. You&#39;ll find classic works by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Heinrich Heine, Rainer Maria Rilke, Thomas Mann and Arthur Schnitzler, as well as more recent tales by writers like Heinrich B&ouml;ll, Peter Stamm and Martin Suter. It also includes the first published English translation of Joseph Roth&rsquo;s story &ldquo;Christmas in Cochinchina.&rdquo;<BR />  <BR /> Enjoy <I>Eine fr&ouml;hliche Weihnachten</I>&#8213;A Merry Christmas&#8213;made all the more festive with these literary treats redolent of candle-lit trees, St. Nikolaus, gingerbread, Gugelhopf and stollen cakes, all accompanied by plenty of schnapps.</div>

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A Very German Christmas

<div><P><B>The Nobel Prize&ndash;winning author&rsquo;s masterful novella of eros and obsession, presented alongside other short works of lyrical beauty and psychological depth.</B></P><P>In Thomas Mann&rsquo;s immortal novella <I>A Death in Venice</I>, renowned author Gustave Aschenbach faces both middle age and a severe case of writer&rsquo;s block. He resolves to go on holiday in search of inspiration, only to find himself awestruck by the classical beauty of a fourteen-year-old boy. Submitting to his obsession with the youth, Gustave slowly loses himself, his dignity, and finally his life.</P> This volume includes six short works by Mann, including &ldquo;Little Herr Friedmann,&rdquo; &ldquo;Gladius Dei,&rdquo; Tristan,&rdquo; and &ldquo;Tonio Kroger,&rdquo; among others.</div>

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