Goedsche C.R., Glaettli W.E. Thomas Mann

Revised Edition. — D. Van Nostrand, 1957. — 74 p. — (Cultural Graded Readers : Alternate German Series: II (Elementary)).In the Alternate German Series (Elementary), we have chosen for our subjects Germans who achieved much of their great fame in other parts of the world. Book I is devoted to Schweitzer, Book II to Mann, Book III to Heine, Book IV to Beethoven, Book V to Steinmetz.
In Book II, we read about the life and career of Thomas Mann, novelist, essayist, dramatist, and short-story writer of international reputation. We follow him to the three countries which in different periods of his life he called home: first, his native Germany, where his genius developed and flourished and where his career reached its high point with the award of the Nobel Prize in 1929; next, the United States, where he found a haven from the threat of persecution and an atmosphere conducive to his art and where he became a naturalized citizen; and finally, Switzerland, where he chose to spend the last years of his life in continued literary activity and where he died at the age of eighty.
Special attention has been given to his novel Der Zauberberg, which many critics believe to be one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century.