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Passionate Journey

Passionate Journey

2001 ·
·4.03·111 Ratings ·160 Pages
“ The greatest of richness is the richness of the soul. ” ― Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him)
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  • The City: A Vision in Woodcuts

    2006·
    ·4.31·180 Ratings
    "An absolute song for an ongoing visit with timelessness." — The New York TimesThis graphic novel by an Expressionist master offers a stunning depiction of urban Europe between the world wars. First published in Germany in 1925, it presents unforgettabl
  • Graphic Witness: Four Wordless Graphic Novels

    2007·
    ·4.02·213 Ratings
    "If you care about graphic novels, you need this book." - New York Times best-selling author Neil GaimanGraphic Witness features rare wordless novels by four great 20th-century woodcut artists European and North American. The stories they tell reflect the
  • Mario and the Magician

    1991·
    ·3.43·1,394 Ratings
    Mario and the Magician is one of Mann's most political stories. Mann openly criticizes fascism, a choice which later became one of the grounds for his exile to Switzerland following Hitler's rise to power. The sorcerer, Cipolla, is analogous to the fascis
  • Joseph and His Brothers

    2005·
    ·4.41·1,210 Ratings
    This remarkable new translation of the Nobel Prize-winner’s great masterpiece is a major literary event.Thomas Mann regarded his monumental retelling of the biblical story of Joseph as his magnum opus. He conceived of the four parts–The Stories of Jac
  • The Transposed Heads: A Legend of India

    1959·
    ·3.81·363 Ratings
    The novella, 'The Transposed Heads' is Thomas Mann's philosophical version of an Indian legend about the conflict between mind and body. In a twinned paroxysm, two friends, the intellectual Shridaman and the earthy Nanda, behead themselves. Magically, the
  • The Holy Sinner

    1997·
    ·3.92·512 Ratings
    THE BOOK: An epic arch sinfulness, The Holy Sinner is one of Thomas Mann's great works. From the incestuous union of the two beautiful children of the Duke Grimald of Flanders a boy is born. Left to die at sea, the child is eventually rescued & brough
  • Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man: The Early Years

    1992·
    ·3.89·2,344 Ratings
    Thomas Mann's final novel recounts the strange and entranced career of the gifted swindler, Felix Krull, through his childhood and early manhood. Krull is a man unhampered by moral precepts that govern the conduct of ordinary mortals, and this natural lac
  • The Black Swan

    1990·
    ·3.49·311 Ratings
    Thomas Mann's bold and disturbing novella, written in 1952, is the feminine counterpart of his masterpiece Death in Venice. Written from the point of view of a woman in what we might now call mid-life crisis, The Black Swan evinces Mann's mastery of psych
  • Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family

    1994·
    ·4.14·13,934 Ratings
    Buddenbrooks, first published in Germany in 1901, when Mann was only twenty-six, has become a classic of modern literature.It is the story of four generations of a wealthy bourgeois family in northern Germany facing the advent of modernity; in an uncertai
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