Thomas Mann is among the greatest of German prose writers, and was the first German novelist to reach a wide English-speaking readership since Goethe. Novels such as iBuddenbrooks, The Magic Mountain, i and iDoktor Faustusi attest to his mastery of subtle, distanced irony, while novellas such as iDeath in Venicei reveal him at the height of his mastery of language. In addition to fresh insights about these best-known works of Mann, this volume treats less-often-discussed works such as iJoseph and His Brothers, Lotte in Weimar, i and iFelix Krull, i as well as his political writings and essays. Mann himself was a paradox his role as family-father was both refuge and faade his love of Germany was matched by his contempt for its having embraced Hitler. While in exile during the Nazi period, he functioned as the prime representative of the good Germany in the fight against fascism, and he has often been remembered this way in English-speaking lands. But a new view of Mann is emerging half