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Discover Thomas Mann's comic novel of deception and misplaced confidence.
Waiter by day, man about Paris by night; the young and good looking Felix Krull has created for himself a personality to charm and deceive the world of wealth. When the Marquis de Venosta makes him a proposal that he can't refuse, the young Felix finds himself on the pathway that will elevate him into the world of riches.
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 618
First published in 1900, when Thomas Mann was 25, Buddenbrooks is a minutely imagined chronicle of four generations of a North German mercantile family - a work so true to life that it scandalized the author’s former neighbours in his native Lübeck.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Where Have You Been All My Life, Thomas Mann?
- De Virginia Waldron en 03-30-17
De: Thomas Mann
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The Decline of the West
- Vol 1: Form and Actuality. Vol 2: Perspectives of World History
- De: Oswald Spengler
- Narrado por: Peter Wickham
- Duración: 55 h y 52 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 64
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 52
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 51
The Decline of the West - Volume 1 published in 1917, Volume 2 in 1922 - has exercised and challenged opinion ever since. It was a huge undertaking by Oswald Spengler (1880-1936), formerly an unpublished historian and philosopher who set out to radically reconsider history - the rise and fall of world civilisations and their cultures. His primary view was to reject the established Eurocentric paradigm (ancient/classical, Medieval - and, following the Renaissance - modern) and to take a totally new perspective.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Stunningly deep work of philosophy
- De J. Martin en 05-16-21
De: Oswald Spengler
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The Man Without Qualities
- De: Robert Musil
- Narrado por: John Telfer
- Duración: 60 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 55
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 46
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 47
In 1913, the Viennese aristocracy is gathering to celebrate the 17th jubilee of the accession of Emperor Franz Josef, even as the Austro-Hungarian Empire is collapsing and the rest of Vienna is showing signs of rebellion. At the centre of this social labyrinth is Ulrich: a veteran, a seducer and a scientist, yet also a man 'without qualities' and therefore a brilliant and detached observer of his changing world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An unmatched intellectual epic
- De Delano en 06-23-22
De: Robert Musil