{"product_id":"thomas-mann-death-in-venice-london-1928-123789","title":"Death in Venice.","description":"\u003ch4 class=\"srb-faux-head\"\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003eA very good first UK edition of Thomas Mann's Death in Venice, alongside his other short stories Tristan and Tonio Kröger which were translated from German by H.T. Lowe-Porter for this edition. This story was based on Mann's own experience of Venice during the 1911 cholera epidemic and follows Gustav von Aschenbach and his infatuation with a young boy named Tadzio.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThomas Mann was a staunch social critic and Nazi opponent. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1929 and Death in Venice was turned into a notable opera by Benjamin Britten and an Oscar-nominated 1971 film. Some of his other famous works include The Magic Mountain, Buddenbrooks and Doctor Faustus.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst UK edition; 8vo (19.5 x 13 cm); translated by H.T. Lowe-Porter from the original German, ink spots to margins of p152-3, small marginal loss to edge of p.157 not affecting text, occasional spot or mark throughout else very good, clean copy; publisher's green cloth boards, gilt lettering to upper board and spine, a little faded around edges of boards, spine quite faded; publisher's grey dust-jacket with red and black lettering to upper panel and spine, small printing smudge across the 'o' of 'Mountain,' spine a little faded and soiled, some general signs of age, small losses to all fore-corners and upper and lower joints, though none affecting text or decoration, overall very good due to age and scarce to find in such good condition; 271pp, [1]pp.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"MANN, Thomas.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57147276689783,"sku":"123789","price":3835.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4694\/1233\/files\/123789.jpg?v=1780531723","url":"https:\/\/shapero.com\/en-us\/products\/thomas-mann-death-in-venice-london-1928-123789","provider":"Shapero Rare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}