{"product_id":"9780749386474","title":"Buddenbrooks","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  Mann, Thomas \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eFiction \u0026amp; related items\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 29 July 1996 by Vintage Publishing (Vintage Classics).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback | 864 pages\u003cbr\u003e197 x 131 x 33 | 612g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDiscover Mann's Nobel Prizewinning semi-autobiographical and sweeping family epic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Buddenbrook clan is everything you'd expect of a nineteenth-century German merchant family - wealthy, esteemed, established. Four generations later, a tide of twentieth-century modernism has gradually disintegrated the bourgeois values on which the Buddenbrooks built their success.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this, Mann's first novel, his astounding, semi-autobiographical family epic, he portrays the transition of genteel Germanic stability to a very modern uncertainty.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Perhaps the first great novel of the 20th century' New York Times\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Far From The Madding Crowd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43924757086467,"sku":"9780749386474","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0404\/3207\/4914\/files\/9780749386474_d06c8d6f-b830-4e9c-a1c8-823b0406cb3b.jpg?v=1731347174","url":"https:\/\/www.maddingcrowdlinlithgow.live\/products\/9780749386474","provider":"Far From The Madding Crowd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}