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In addition to providing a plot summary, the volume helps students and general readers discover the literary and intellectual qualities of Mann's famous novella.

Table of Contents

Preface Introduction Content Texts Contexts Ideas Narrative Art Reception Bibliographical Essay Index

About the Author

ELLIS SHOOKMAN is Associate Professor of German at Dartmouth College. His previous books include Eighteenth-Century German Prose (1992), The Faces of Physiognomy (1993), Noble Lies, Slant Truths, Necessary Angels: Aspects of Fictionality in the Novels of Christoph Martin Wieland (1997), and Thomas Mann's Death in Venice: A Novella and Its Critics (2003).