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Mann, William d'AltonBiblio.com

Fads and Fancies of Representative Americans at the Beginning of the 20th Century: Being a Portrayal of their Tastes Diversions and Achievements.

Thomas MannBiblio.com

Thomas Mann Writes of Penning ""Buddenbrooks"" in Solitude and Reflects Philosophically on the Impact of his Work Worldwide

16041818816/04/1936. <blockquote>An incredibly rare and unpublished letter relating to his perhaps most famous work</blockquote>1936 was a momentous year for Mann. That year his escalated attacks on the Nazi government led to his German citizenship being revoked. He traveled to Argentina his maternal homeland for a PEN International Conference which was organized to bring peace and understanding between cultures using literature.In 1900 at the age of 25 Thomas Mann wrote and in 1901 published Buddenbrooks chronicling the decline of a wealthy north German merchant family over the course of four generations. Mann drew deeply from the history of his own family the Mann family of LÃ¼beck and their times. It was Mann's first novel and it made him a major literary figure. The work led to a Nobel Prize in Literature for Mann in 1929; although the Nobel award generally recognizes an author's body of work the Swedish Academy's citation for Mann identified ""his great novel Buddenbrooks"" as the principal reason for his prize. Mann began writing the book in October 1897 when he was twenty-two years old. The novel was completed three years later in July 1900 and published in October 1901.Henry Hart was an American publisher who worked mainly for Scribner's in New York. He was working with Mann on the publication of English-language versions of his works including Nocturns.Typed letter signed in German to Hart April 16 1936.""I am hurrying to acknowledge receipt of your check from August 25th and am happy that sales of the â€œNocturnesâ€ are gradually progressing.""You have added some very personal notes to your letter hat I would like to address with a few words. The trip to Moscow I will definitely make but will have to postpone it for now since I have travel plans to Vienna and Budapest in the immediate future. For the summer I have agreed to travel to Bueno Aires for the PEN Club Congress. I had committed to this trip a while ago and therefore have to travel there first. This trip is especially enticing to me since it will take me to Rio de Janeiro. It is the home of my mother who often told me about the beauty of the coast when I was a child.""I was very touched about what you told me regarding your repeated studies of the novel of my youth. I finished it when I was 25 years old. The young man who wrote that book in his solitude could not have dreamed that it would be his calling in life to influence the intellectual life of people in a foreign continent in a educating and encouraging way. From the bottom of my heart I wish you have happy and beautiful ideas for your work and am repeating my request to please send me a copy your book once it is printed."" unknown

The Raab Collection · États-Unis5 500,00 $US≈ 4 653,55 €

Mann, A DudleyBiblio.com

Die nordamericanischen Freistaaten. Uebersetzung.

1845823Bremen: Druck und Verlag von C. SchÃ¼nemann 1845. First edition. In blue paper. Partly untrimmed uncut. With the stamp of the â€œSozialdemokratischen Vereins Bremenâ€ on title page. With several newspaper clippings from 1881 and 1882 related to the text mounted onto pages with no effect on legibility. Foxing throughout. Overall in very good condition. First edition. In blue paper. VIII 326 2 p. Guid book about the United States for German emigrants. Gives a detailed description of 27 American states that admitted to the Union until the date of the publication and in addition about Iowa and Wisconsin. It also includes a forty-page description of the United States the biography of George Washington and the translation of his Farewell Address that is most likely the first European edition in German translation of the speech. The book starts with the description of the Thirteen Colonies that formed the United States in 1776 gives detailed information about their geography demography political and legislative system history and provides also an agricultural and economic overview. The second part is the description of the United States its political legislative system its history and economy it gives information about the United States Army the immigration and about the agriculture and religion of the US. This followed by the description of the other sixteen states and the fifty-page biography of George Washington that includes the German translation of the entire Farewell Address. We could not trace any earlier German translations of the text that was published outside the US. The author Dudley Ambrose Mann 1801â€“1889 was an American diplomat and politician the consul of the United States in Bremen in 1842 the time when its harbour served as the most important and busy emigrant harbour of Central Europe. Later Mann has held various offices in Hungary and Switzerland in 1853 he was appointed the first ever Assistant Secretary of State and from 1861 served as the commissioner of the Confederate States of America for Belgium and the Vatican. Sabin 44309; Howes US IANA M256. . Druck und Verlag von C. Schünemann unknown

Foldvaribooks · Hongrie4 681,20 $US≈ 3 960,76 €

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