Joseph and His Brothers: Book 1
The Tales of Jacob
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Mark Elstob
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Thomas Mann
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in this first volume subtitled ‘The Stories of Jacob’, Mann begins with a meditative prelude named “Descent into Hell”, which contextualises the story against a variety of historical, mythological, and historical contexts, before moving on to the story of Joseph’s father Jacob. The following chapters follow Jacob as we learn of him stealing his brother’s birthright, before fleeing to his uncle Laban and his later marriages to Rachel and Leah.
Deploying Mann’s signature capacity for incredible, often mesmerising detail, Joseph and His Brothers brings to life a world of mythology and legend, set within the ancient kingdoms of Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Palestine. The result is an immersive, awe-inspiring work of psychological depth – one that is replete with historical detail, ironic humour, and breathtaking grandeur.
This recording is based on John E. Woods definitive English translation, providing an authoritative retelling that is worthy of Mann’s landmark work.©1930 Thomas Mann (P)2025 W. F. Howes Ltd
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 143
Joachim Neugroschel’s brilliant new translation lets you enjoy the work of Nobel-Laureate Thomas Mann as never before. By using creative, contemporary language, Neugroschel reinterprets Mann for modern English-speaking audiences. The author’s superb literary craftsmanship, his psychological insight, and the deeply erotic content of his work shine forth in this definitive English-language version of some of his most celebrated short works. This collection features the world masterpiece
Death in Venice....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautifully done
- De Adeliese Baumann en 02-05-13
De: Thomas Mann
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The Plague
- A New Translation by Laura Marris
- De: Albert Camus, Laura Marris -translated by
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
- Duración: 11 h y 44 m
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An immediate triumph when it was published in 1947, The Plague is in part an allegory of France’s suffering under the Nazi occupation, as well as a timeless story of bravery and determination against the precariousness of human existence.
De: Albert Camus, y otros
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The Magic Mountain
- De: Thomas Mann
- Narrado por: David Rintoul
- Duración: 37 h y 27 m
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Hans Castorp is, on the face of it, an ordinary man in his early 20s, on course to start a career in ship engineering in his home town of Hamburg, when he decides to travel to the Berghof Santatorium in Davos. The year is 1912 and an oblivious world is on the brink of war. Castorp’s friend Joachim Ziemssen is taking the cure and a three-week visit seems a perfect break before work begins. But when Castorp arrives he is surprised to find an established community of patients, and little by little, he gets drawn into the closeted life and the individual personalities of the residents.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Magical Journey
- De Paul en 08-20-20
De: Thomas Mann
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Reflections of a Nonpolitical Man
- De: Thomas Mann, Mark Lilla - introduction/translator, Walter D. Morris - translator, y otros
- Narrado por: Graham Rowat
- Duración: 25 h y 10 m
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When the Great War broke out in August 1914, Thomas Mann, like so many people on both sides of the conflict, was exhilarated. Finally, the era of decadence that he had anatomized in Death in Venice had come to an end; finally, there was a cause worth fighting and even dying for, or, at least when it came to Mann himself, writing about. Mann immediately picked up his pen to compose a paean to the German cause. Soon after, his elder brother and lifelong rival, the novelist Heinrich Mann, responded with a no less determined denunciation.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The most contradictory book by Thomas Mann
- De B JE en 12-30-24
De: Thomas Mann, y otros
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Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man
- De: Thomas Mann
- Narrado por: Mark Elstob
- Duración: 13 h y 26 m
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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.
De: Thomas Mann
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Death in Venice
- A New Translation by Michael Henry Heim
- De: Thomas Mann
- Narrado por: Simon Callow
- Duración: 3 h y 9 m
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Published on the eve of World War I, a decade after Buddenbrooks had established Thomas Mann as a literary celebrity, Death in Venice tells the story of Gustave von Aschenbach, a successful but aging writer who follows his wanderlust to Venice in search of spiritual fulfillment that instead leads to his erotic doom.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Brilliant gem
- De L. Fish en 09-18-04
De: Thomas Mann
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The Other Renaissance
- From Copernicus to Shakespeare: How the Renaissance in Northern Europe Transformed the World
- De: Paul Strathern
- Narrado por: Roger May
- Duración: 14 h y 58 m
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However, a historical transformation of similar magnitude also took place in northern Europe at the same time. This "Other Renaissance" was initially centered on the city of Bruges in Flanders (modern Belgium), but its influence was soon being felt in France, the German states, London, and even in Italy itself.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Comprehensive study
- De Roger en 04-07-25
De: Paul Strathern
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Sentimental Education
- De: Gustave Flaubert
- Narrado por: Andrew Wincott
- Duración: 20 h y 2 m
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Upon arriving home in Normandy, Frederick catches his first glimpse of Marie Arnoux, a mysterious and beautiful woman who leaves a lasting impression on him. Eventually they make each other's acquaintance and Marie becomes a symbol of unattainable perfection for Frederick, whose unrequited infatuation leaves him bouncing from one passion to another, falling in and out of love, money and society.
De: Gustave Flaubert
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Goethe
- His Faustian Life - The Extraordinary Story of Modern Germany, a Troubled Genius and the Poem that Made Our World
- De: A. N. Wilson
- Narrado por: A.N. Wilson
- Duración: 16 h y 18 m
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Goethe was the inventor of the psychological novel, a pioneer scientist, great man of the theatre and a leading politician. As A. N. Wilson argues in this groundbreaking biography, it was his genius and insatiable curiosity that helped catapult the Western world into the modern era. A N. Wilson tackles the life of Goethe with characteristic wit and verve. From his youth as a wild literary prodigy to his later years as Germany’s most respected elder statesman, Wilson hones in on Goethe’s undying obsession with the work he would spend his entire life writing – Faust.
De: A. N. Wilson
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The Kill
- La Curée
- De: Émile Zola
- Narrado por: Leighton Pugh
- Duración: 12 h y 37 m
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Against a backdrop of modernisation, extravagant luxury, political intrigue and sexual immorality, Saccard treats close relationships as money-making opportunities and loved ones as mere commodities. As one character puts it: ‘You see, everything is fine, as long as you make money from it.’
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5 out of 5 stars
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one of Zola's best
- De Nom de Guerre en 05-05-25
De: Émile Zola
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The Magic Mountain
- De: Thomas Mann
- Narrado por: Wilfred Morgan
- Duración: 35 h y 54 m
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A book that pulses with life in the midst of death, The Magic Mountain is a mammoth masterpiece of erudition and irony, sexual tension, and intellectual ferment. Mann utilises a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps, a community dedicated solely to illness, as a microcosm for Europe, which in the years prior to 1914 was already displaying the initial signs of its own terminal madness, in this dizzyingly dense novel of ideas.
De: Thomas Mann
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The Man Without Qualities
- De: Robert Musil
- Narrado por: John Telfer
- Duración: 60 h y 30 m
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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
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Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings
- Shahnameh
- De: Abolqasem Ferdowsi, Dick Davis - translator
- Narrado por: Sean Rohani, Nikki Massoud, Dick Davis
- Duración: 47 h y 43 m
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Dick Davis—“our pre-eminent translator from the Persian” (The Washington Post)—has revised and expanded his acclaimed translation of Ferdowsi’s masterpiece, adding more than 100 pages of newly translated text. Davis’s elegant combination of prose and verse allows the poetry of the Shahnameh to sing its own tales directly, interspersed sparingly with clearly marked explanations to ease along modern audiences.
De: Abolqasem Ferdowsi, y otros
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Shōbōgenzō
- The Treasure House of the Eye of the True Teaching
- De: Eihei Dōgen
- Narrado por: Brian Nishii
- Duración: 55 h y 11 m
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The Shōbōgenzō is the recognized spiritual masterpiece by the 13th- century Japanese Sōtō Zen Master Eihei Dōgen. It is comprised of discourses that he gave to his disciples, in person or in writing, at various times between 1231 and his death 22 years later at age 53. These discourses cover a wide range of topics pertinent to those in monastic life, though often also relevant to those training in lay life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I'm just amazed
- De Amazon Customer en 05-01-21
De: Eihei Dōgen
Beautiful
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