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Buddenbrooks

Wealthy, esteemed, and deeply rooted in tradition, the Buddenbrook family epitomises nineteenth-century German bourgeois values.

But as the tides of modernity and change sweep through Europe, their once-stable world begins to crumble, along with the tenets on which the Buddenbrooks built their success. Spanning four generations, this semi-autobiographical family epic records the transition of genteel Germanic stability to a very modern uncertainty.

'Perhaps the first great novel of the 20th century' New York Times

Perhaps the first great novel of the 20th century

New York Times

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  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • ISBN: 9780749386474
  • Length: 864 pages
  • Dimensions: 200mm x 53mm x 131mm
  • Weight: 595g
  • Price: £14.99
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