Specially-commissioned essays explore key dimensions of Thomas Mann's writing and life.

The Cambridge Companion to the Modern German Novel, first published in 2004, provides a broad ranging introduction to the major trends in the development of the

A lively and comprehensive account of the whole tradition of European fiction for students and teachers of comparative literature, this volume covers twenty-fiv

This second edition of the Companion has been thoroughly revised and updated with eleven new chapters and a new bibliography.

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 su