Thomas Mann: Short Stories & Novellas
Psychological Novellas of Beauty, Desire, Bourgeois Conflict, and Modern European UneaseBy Thomas Mann
Length35h 31m
About this audiobook
Thomas Mann: Short Stories & Novellas gathers the shorter fiction in which Mann compresses the grand concerns of his novels—art and eroticism, illness and vitality, bourgeois order and inner rebellion—into forms of remarkable precision. From the Künstlernovelle's self-conscious meditation on artistic identity to the psychologically charged tragedy of "Death in Venice," these works display Mann's characteristic fusion of irony, symbolic patterning, philosophical reflection, and sensuous descriptive detail. Their cultivated prose, at once lucid and ceremonious, places private desire within the broader crises of fin-de-siècle European culture, while their recurring tensions between Apollonian discipline and Dionysian impulse illuminate the modernist transformation of narrative fiction. Born in Lübeck in 1875, Mann emerged from the world of the German Bildungsbürgertum, whose ideals of education, respectability, and cultural distinction both shaped and unsettled his imagination. His engagement with Wagner, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, psychoanalytic thought, and the political catastrophes of modern Europe informs these stories, which repeatedly examine the costs of aesthetic distance and social conformity. The collection therefore provides an especially accessible introduction to the intellectual and emotional architecture of his achievement. This volume is recommended to readers seeking an authoritative entry into Mann's fiction, as well as to students of European modernism, literary decadence, and the novella tradition. It rewards close reading while remaining compelling as narrative, revealing how Mann transforms moral ambiguity and cultural anxiety into enduring art.
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GenreLiterary Classics
Length35 hrs 31 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJan 1, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Doctor Faustus
23The train accident
2Vision
24The fight between Jappe and the Do Escobar
3Fallen
25A Man and His Dog (pt. 1)
4The Will to Happiness
26A Man and His Dog (pt. 2)
5Disillusionment
27The Song of the Child
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6Death
28The Blood of the Walsungs
7Little Mr. Friedemann
29Disorder and early suffering
8The Clown
30Mario and the Magician
9Tobias Mindernickel
31The Boy Henoch
10The Wardrobe
32The Swapped Heads (pt. 1)
11Avenged
33The Swapped Heads (pt. 2)
12Luischen
34The Black Swan (pt. 1)
13The Way to the Cemetery
35The Black Swan (pt. 2)
14Gladius Dei
36The Tables of the Law (pt. 1)
15Tonio Kröger
37The Tables of the Law (pt. 2)
16Tristan
38Death in Venice
17The Hungry
39Chapter One
18The Child Prodigy
40Chapter Two
19Good luck
41Chapter Three
20At the Prophet's
42Chapter Four
21Difficult times
43Chapter Five
22Anecdote
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