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"I have an epic, not a dramatic nature. My disposition and my desires call for peace to spin my thread, for a steady rhythm in life and art."
Nobel Banquet Speech (10 December 1929)
Thomas Mann died #OTD in 1955. German novelist and essayist whose early novels—Buddenbrooks (1900), Der Tod in Venedig (1912; Death in Venice), and Der Zauberberg (1924; The Magic Mountain)—earned him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1929.
Books by Thomas Mann at PG:
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Nobel Banquet Speech (10 December 1929)
Thomas Mann died #OTD in 1955. German novelist and essayist whose early novels—Buddenbrooks (1900), Der Tod in Venedig (1912; Death in Venice), and Der Zauberberg (1924; The Magic Mountain)—earned him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1929.
Books by Thomas Mann at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/4200
#books #literature