{"product_id":"9780241785409","title":"PRE-ORDER NOW Buddenbrooks by John E. Woods","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e PRE-ORDER NOW - Published: 23\/07\/2026 \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe definitive translation of 'perhaps the first great novel of the 20th century' (New York Times)`I bear within me the seed, the rudiments, the possibility of life's capacities and endeavours. Where might I be, if I were not here?'Buddenbrooks is one of the original, and greatest, of family chronicles: the story of four generations of a wealthy and bourgeois German dynasty as they experience all the anguish and rewards of human life: births, marriages, divorces, deaths, madness, artistic achievement and bankruptcy. Thomas Mann's first novel is a richly realized, profoundly moving saga of `the decline of a family' as it succumbs to the forces of modernity. Published when he was only twenty-five, it was one of the two books for which he won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1929.   Translated by John E. Woods \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56367899246965,"sku":"9780241785409","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780241785409.jpg?v=1763548210","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9780241785409","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}