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Joseph and His Brothers
Thomas Mann
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Description for Joseph and His Brothers
Hardcover. This remarkable new translation of the Nobel Prizewinner's great masterpiece is a major literary event. Translator(s): Woods, John E. Num Pages: 1536 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 127 x 57. Weight in Grams: 1114.
Thomas Mann regarded his monumental retelling of the biblical story of Joseph as his magnum opus. He conceived of the four parts-The Stories of Jacob, Young Joseph, Joseph in Egypt, and Joseph the Provider-as a unified narrative, a mythological novel of Joseph's fall into slavery and his rise to be lord over Egypt. Deploying lavish, persuasive detail, Mann conjures for us the world of patriarchs and pharaohs, the ancient civilizations of Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Palestine, and the universal force of human love in all its beauty, desperation, absurdity, and pain. The result is a brilliant amalgam of humor, ... Read more
Thomas Mann regarded his monumental retelling of the biblical story of Joseph as his magnum opus. He conceived of the four parts-The Stories of Jacob, Young Joseph, Joseph in Egypt, and Joseph the Provider-as a unified narrative, a mythological novel of Joseph's fall into slavery and his rise to be lord over Egypt. Deploying lavish, persuasive detail, Mann conjures for us the world of patriarchs and pharaohs, the ancient civilizations of Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Palestine, and the universal force of human love in all its beauty, desperation, absurdity, and pain. The result is a brilliant amalgam of humor, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Everyman
Condition
New
Number of Pages
1536
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781857152876
SKU
9781857152876
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About Thomas Mann
Thomas Mann was born in 1875 in Germany. He was only twenty-five when his first novel, Buddenbrooks, was published. In 1924 The Magic Mountain was published, and, five years later, Mann was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Following the rise of the Nazis to power, he left Germany for good in 1933 to live in Switzerland and then in ... Read more
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