Death in Venice and Other Stories

　　Review
　　[One of] the greatest writers of [his] time. -- William Faulkner
　　Review
　　[One of] the greatest writers of [his] time. (William Faulkner)

　　This translation of Nobel Laureate Thomas Mann's work includes his masterpiece, "Death in Venice," plus six of the author's short stories: "Tristan," "Tonio Kroger," "Man and Dog: An Idyll," "Hour of Hardship," "Tobias Mindernickel," and "The Child Prodigy."

　　Thomas Mann was born in 1875 in Germany. He was only twenty-five when his first novel, Buddenbrooks, was published. In 1924, The Magic Mountain was published, and, five years later, Mann was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Following the rise of the Nazis to power, he left Germany for good in 1933 to live in Switzerland and then in California, where he wrote Doctor Faustus (first published in the United States in 1948). Thomas Mann died in 1955. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Tobias Mindernickel
Tristan
Tonio KrOger
The Child Prodigy
Hour of Hardship
Death in Venice
Man and Dog An Idyll
Afterword
Suggestions for Further Reading