The Complete Works of Thomas Mann
Major Novels, Novellas, Essays, and Reflective Prose on Art, Exile, Humanism, and Modern EuropeBy Thomas Mann
Length236h 33m
About this audiobook
The Complete Works of Thomas Mann presents the expansive achievement of one of twentieth-century literature's defining stylists. Across novels, novellas, essays, speeches, and other writings, Mann examines the tensions between art and bourgeois society, intellect and instinct, disease and vitality, private desire and public responsibility. His famously measured prose—ironic, ceremonious, psychologically acute, and richly allusive—creates an intricate literary world in which individual destinies reflect the crises of European modernity. From the decadence of the fin de siècle to the moral catastrophes surrounding the two World Wars, these works unite intellectual argument with dramatic narrative, engaging German romanticism, realism, symbolism, psychoanalysis, and classical myth. Born in Lübeck in 1875 into a cultivated mercantile family, Mann transformed personal, social, and historical pressures into sustained artistic inquiry. His experience of German bourgeois culture, his fraught relationship with artistic identity and sexuality, and his evolution from a conservative national consciousness toward outspoken opposition to Nazism profoundly shaped his writing. Exile in Switzerland and the United States further sharpened his reflections on democracy, humanism, political responsibility, and the fate of European civilization. The collection therefore records not only a literary career but also a conscience testing itself against history. This volume is recommended to readers seeking both aesthetic pleasure and formidable intellectual depth. It offers an essential panorama of Mann's development, revealing how recurring themes acquire new force across genres and decades. Students of modernism, German literature, political thought, and cultural history will find it especially rewarding, while general readers will encounter narratives of extraordinary psychological and moral resonance. Read as a whole, the collection demonstrates why Mann remains indispensable to understanding the possibilities—and perils—of literary humanism.
Audiobook details
GenreGeneral Fiction, Literary Classics
Length236 hrs 33 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJan 1, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Doctor Faustus
26Chapter Four (pt. 2)
2Novels
27Chapter Five (pt. 1)
3Buddenbrooks
28Chapter Five (pt. 2)
4Part One
29Chapter Five (pt. 3)
5Part Two
30Chapter Five (pt. 4)
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6Part Three (pt. 1)
31Volume Two
7Part Three (pt. 2)
32Chapter Six (pt. 1)
8Part Four
33Chapter Six (pt. 2)
9Part Five
34Chapter Six (pt. 3)
10Part Six (pt. 1)
35Chapter Six (pt. 4)
11Part Six (pt. 2)
36Chapter Seven (pt. 1)
12Part Seven
37Chapter Seven (pt. 2)
13Part Eight (pt. 1)
38Chapter Seven (pt. 3)
14Part Eight (pt. 2)
39Chapter Seven (pt. 4)
15Part Nine
40Lotte in Weimar (pt. 1)
16Part Ten
41Lotte in Weimar (pt. 2)
17Part Eleven (pt. 1)
42Lotte in Weimar (pt. 3)
18Part Eleven (pt. 2)
43Lotte in Weimar (pt. 4)
19The Magic Mountain
44Lotte in Weimar (pt. 5)
20Volume One
45Lotte in Weimar (pt. 6)
21Chapter One
46Doctor Faustus
22Chapter Two
47I
23Chapter Three (pt. 1)
48II
24Chapter Three (pt. 2)
49III
25Chapter Four (pt. 1)
50IV
Doktor FaustusThomas Mann26h 35m$1 · $0.00
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Doctor FaustusThomas Mann24h 27m$0.99 · $0.00
Die größten Klassiker der Weltliteratur: Philosophische RomaneThomas Mann, Herman Melville, Hermann Hesse, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Fjodor Dostojewski, Franz Kafka, Friedrich Nietzsche, Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, André Gide, Rainer Maria Rilke, Joseph Conrad, Knut Hamsun, Klaus Mann, Oscar Wilde, Thomas Wolfe224h 19m$1 · $0.00
Royal HighnessThomas Mann10h 3m$0.99 · $0.00
Lotte in WeimarThomas Mann16h 6m$1 · $0.00
BuddenbrooksThomas Mann27h 41m$1 · $0.00
Thomas Mann - Sämtliche RomaneThomas Mann219h 15m$2 · $0.00
Joseph und seine BrüderThomas Mann69h 34m$1 · $0.00
The Magic MountainThomas Mann35h 57m$0.99 · $0.00
La Montaña MágicaThomas Mann37h 2m$18 · $0.00
Thomas Mann: Herr und HundThomas Mann3h 53m$9 · $0.00
Thomas Mann: Gesang vom KindchenThomas Mann1h 11m$5 · $0.00
Thomas Mann: Tristan und IsoldeThomas Mann22m$2 · $0.00
Death in Venice (Annotated)Thomas Mann4h 36m$2 · $0.00
Thomas Mann: Schwere StundeThomas Mann24m$2 · $0.00
Thomas Mann – Selected Classics (Annotated)Thomas Mann49h 18m$2 · $0.00
Der Tod in VenedigThomas Mann3h 47m$9 · $0.00
Joseph in Egypt (Vol. 2) (Annotated)Thomas Mann9h 44m$2 · $0.00
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RiversnowTess Thompson8h 11m$20
Supreme ClienteleAshley & JaQuavis8h 58m$20
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