Little Herr Friedmann And Other Stories

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SALES POINTS- * Autobiography in the guise of fiction - rare insight into the mind of this Nobel Prize winning writer. * Classic fiction which sells steadily to students and to the general reader. * Has been core Penguin backlist for years - now reverting to Minerva. * An essential part of the Mann reissue programme - including truly gorgeous new covers. THE BOOK- A selection of work taken from his highly acclaimed collection Stories of a Lifetime by one of the greatest writers of the 20th Century. In elegant prose, Mann explores such eternal themes as- individuals forced into the extremes of their existence, isolation and the artist's tentative position in the harsh world, the realization of one's true nature.

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Thomas Mann (1875-1955) was the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. His first major novel, Buddenbrooks, had sold over a million copies in Germany alone before it was banned and burned by Hitler.