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| | MSN Encarta - Thomas Mann |
 | | Mann's last major work was Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull (1954; The Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man, 1955), a tale he began and published as a short story early in his career but expanded finally into a novel. | | | The novel that resulted, Buddenbrooks (1901; translated 1924), eventually turned into a best-seller, making its author famous while he was still in his 20s. | | | The story "Der Tod in Venedig” (1912; translated as “Death in Venice," 1925) recounts the last days of a famous writer hopelessly in love with a boy he sees on the beach. |
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http://ca.encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761571740/Mann_Thomas.html
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| | Thomas Mann and the Proponents of Inner Emigration |
| | Mann, in his own way, contributed, in that his arguments do seem, at times, accusatory and unsympathetic to the situation of the postwar German spirit. | | | Since Mann, however, did not enter into this rather delicate side of the debate, it should merely be noted that there is, as yet, no general consensus among scholars as to a true definition of inner emigration. | | | His reasoning in the controversy surrounding inner emigration -- that it was not only undesirable, but possibly dangerous and certainly of questionable morals, and that it denied the collective responsibility of all Germans for their own history -- continued to drive the debate in the years to follow. |
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http://www.nthuleen.com/papers/948Mann.html
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| | little blue light - Thomas Mann |
| | As a German exile, Mann felt it was his duty to represent what was good in German culture and fight against the evil that had taken over his native land. | | | A theological student turned composer makes a pact with the devil for 24 years of musical genius in exchange for his soul and the ability to love his fellow man. A symbolic commentary on the destructive course Germany took to World War II. | | | Now freed from the expectation to run his family's firm after he finished school, Mann turned his attention to true love, literature. |
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http://www.littlebluelight.com/lblphp/intro.php?ikey=17
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| | Amazon.com: Death in Venice : And Seven Other Stories (Vintage International): Books: Thomas Mann |
| | Forty years later Thomas Mann resumed work on this story and in 1954 he published the novel The Confessions of Felix Krull, a light, often hilarious account of a man who wins the favor and love of others by enacting the roles that they desire of him. | | | This somber portrayal of a troubled man is a masterpiece of subtle nuances that illustrates Thomas Mann's ability to create layers of meaning. | | | Overall I would say this is a nice illustration of Mann's literary prodigy, without overwhelming those who are not yet initiated into reading his full-sized novels. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0679722068?v=glance
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| | Telegraph Arts |
| | To his children and friends (though close friends were few) Mann was known as the Master, or the Magician - appropriately for the author of the great novel of 1924, The Magic Mountain, set in a Swiss sanatorium and representing lovingly, but with distancing wit, the degeneracy of an introverted, death-seeking group of European invalids. | | | This biography gathers the reader in by its sheer exuberance, by its wide knowledge, and by its humorously generous attitude towards the infuriating and often absurdly self-regarding Mann, who remains none the less a master magician of German - and world - literature in the 20th century. | | | Mostly he liked to describe himself as "unpolitical", but Kurzke argues deftly that 1914 offered him a chance to become the great national poet of Germany by associating himself with his country. |
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2002/12/08/bokur08.xml&sSheet=/arts/2002/12/08/bomain.html
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| | Mann, Thomas on Encyclopedia.com |
| | To coordinate this dual focus Mann often wrote in a symbolic vein, although in general he was less experimental than many of his contemporaries. | | | These elaborate the recurrent themes of his fiction through studies of thinkers who influenced him. | | | Death in Venice, 1925), a novella in which the hero, a great writer, falls prey to an uncontrolled passion, weakens, and eventually dies. |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/M/Mann-T1ho.asp
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| | Thomas Mann and Walker Percy |
| | In Mann’s novel there is a chapter entitled "Snow" which, Mann himself says, contains "the knowledge and the wisdom, the consecration, the highest reward, for which not only the foolish hero but the book itself is seeking" ("Making" 729). | | | I hope that I have convinced you, that in Walker’s novels I’ve discussed, the "himself" that Walker writes to is the "himself" defined by his awareness of Thomas Mann. | | | Since Thomas Mann was Knopf’s most famous author, Walker must have reflected once again that he had gotten beat by The Magic Mountain. |
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http://www.ibiblio.org/wpercy/lawson2.html
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| | Planning a new type of literary edition: the Thomas Mann Project |
| | The second project requirement for the edition was that the Thomas Mann texts should be prepared in such as was as to make them a resource for long-term use. | | | The final achievement of all this is that both parts of the edition together, book and electronic, constitute the new reference edition for Thomas Mann. | | | First of all, it seemed reasonable to think about possible spin-offs, e.g., a school textbook edition of Buddenbrooks that made use of the explanation of terms in the annotated GKFA, or a volume about "Thomas Mann and Switzerland". |
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http://www.gca.org/papers/xmleurope2000/papers/s09-02.html
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| | Thomas Mann [1875-1955], , Legends, Thomas Mann [1875-1955] profile, A leading German writer of the early 20th century, ... |
| | A leading German writer of the early 20th century, was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1929 for such works as the novella Death in Venice (1912) and his masterpiece, The Magic Mountain (1924)... | | | Doktor Faustus (1947), a symbolic novel concerning the German catastrophe and defeat, reverts to a pessimistic view of Western civilization, as does the serenely cynical Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man (1954), a picaresque account of a crook. | | | Tristan (1903), a collection of novellas that includes "Tonio Kroger" (1903), portrays the artist as an onlooker, or exile from society. |
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http://www.4to40.com/legends/index.asp?article=legends_thomasmann
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| | Beinecke Library Guide -- German Collection |
| | In the same year Thomas Mann founded a collection of his books and manuscripts at Yale, and in the 1940s and 50s other authors and collectors exiled from Germany enriched the library's collections. | | | The Beinecke Library holds a nearly complete collection of printed works by Thomas Mann, many of them signed by the author. | | | In 1957 Yale purchased the major portion of Helen Lowe-Porter's Thomas Mann papers, including typescripts of her translations of essays and lectures by Mann and her English renditions of all of five of his novels, often accompanied by German typescripts, which were prepared under Mann's supervision and have occasional manuscript corrections in his "Roman" hand. |
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http://www.library.yale.edu/beinecke/blgycgl.htm
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| | Random House Books The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann |
| | “All the characters in Thomas Mann’s masterpiece come considerably closer to speaking English in John E. Woods’s version. | | | Acclaimed translator John E. Woods has given us the definitive English version of Mann’s masterpiece. | | | “[Woods’s translation] succeeds in capturing the beautiful cadence of [Mann’s] ironically elegant prose.” –Washington Post Book World |
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http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=1400044219
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| | Book Reviews: "Doctor Faustus," by Thomas Mann & "The Castle," by Franz Kafka |
| | John Woods, able translator of Doctor Faustus, has published strong retranslations of Buddenbrooks and The Magic Mountain. | | | The freedom they offered at the beginning of the nineteenth century have hardened into conventions and "begun to coat talent like a mildew." | | | How does it happen that both books appear just now? |
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| | Thomas Mann - his life and works |
| | Mann returns to Europe, but refuses to choose between the divided Germanies. | | | Begins a novel Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man (based on memories of Manolescu) which he abandons, then picks it up exactly where he left off, forty years later. | | | Thomas Mann: a life This exploration of Thomas Mann's life describes his relationship with his brother Heinrich, his homosexuality, his career as a prolific essayist, and the vast achievement of his novels. |
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http://www.mantex.co.uk/ou/a319/mann-02.htm
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| | Thomas Mann's Under-aspected Mercury: Horoscope, Biography |
| | "Mann published the novel The Magic Mountain in 1924, after working on it for 12 years. | | | His writings combine wisdom, humor, and philosophical thought. | | | His brother, Heinrich Mann, and his son, Klaus Mann, were also writers." World Book Encyclopedia, CD-Rom edition, 1997. |
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| | The Prague Post Online |
| | Mann visited Prosec in January 1937, greeting and thanking the townspeople and making the affiliation with his newfound homeland official. | | | An epic saga of the gradual decline of a wealthy Hanseatic family, the book was a bestseller at home and abroad. | | | The town's role in helping Mann is recounted in a new book, My Prosec and Thomas Mann, by Marie Rut Krizova and Vaclav Vojtech Tosovsky (published only in Czech). |
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| | Thomas Mann - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | He is noted for his analysis and critique of the European and German soul in the beginning of the 20th century, using modernized German and Biblical stories, as well as the ideas of Goethe, Nietzsche, and Schopenhauer. | | | Mann's diaries, unsealed in 1975, speak movingly of his own struggles with his sexuality, which found reflection in his works, especially through the obsession of the elderly Aschenbach for the young Polish boy, Tadzio, in his novella, Death in Venice (Der Tod in Venedig, 1912). | | | One of his greatest works was the tetralogy Joseph and His Brothers (Joseph und seine Brüder, 1933–42), a richly imagined retelling of the story of Joseph related in chapters 27-50 of Genesis in the Hebrew Bible. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Mann
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| | THOMAS MANN CHARLES MEIDER Autograph |
| | The homemade book, bound in brown plaid covers, is also signed: "Charles Meider/May 31, 1940" on the first blank flyleaf. | | | Some of his best known works include Death in Venice and The Magic Mountain. | | | The original printed and made in Germany." THOMAS MANN (1875-1955), a German-born novelist and essayist, was awarded the 1929 Nobel Prize for Literature, principally for his novel, Buddenbrooks. |
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| | Thomas Mann Museum |
| | This exposition part is illustrated with photos, document duplicates and books. | | | Guided tours on Lithuanian, Russian, English and German language. | | | Museum's collection is made up of photos, books, and copies of documents reflecting life and works of T. Mann. |
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http://muziejai.mch.mii.lt/Neringa/mano_muziejus.en.htm
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| | The theme of this book, the conflict between the man of artistic temperament and his middle-class environment, recurred in his tales Tonio Kr^ger (1903; trans. | | | In one of his later critical works, Essays of Three Decades (1947), he discussed his literary themes as influenced by these thinkers and other artists. | | | 1927), his best-known work and one of the outstanding 20th-century novels, Mann subjected contemporary European civilization to minute analysis. |
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| | Thomas Mann and Death in Venice |
| | His Death in Venice is one of the most beautiful books the 20th century has yet produced, and Thomas Mann was inspired to write Death in Venice after seeing the composer Gustav Mahler break down in tears on the train departing Venice. | | | Mann died on 12 August 1955 in Zurich, Switzerland, to which he had returned one year before his death. | | | One of the greatest German-speaking novelists of the twentieth century, Thomas Mann, was born June 6th, 1875, in the Northern German town of Lübeck. |
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| | Truman Library - Thomas C. Mann Oral History Interview |
| | MANN: I just happened to be in the middle, which I never really objected to; I understood it. | | | There were a lot of Germans in Latin America with considerable property, and some of them had been there two or three generations. | | | MANN: I think people hoped; I don't say believed. |
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| | Scriptorium - Thomas Mann |
| | If you are a writer with expertise in the life and works of Thomas Mann, and you’d be interested in helping The Modern Word expand, please look at the Scriptorium submission guidelines. | | | Amazon.com Search – Search Amazon.com for books and related material on Thomas Mann. | | | This section is dedicated to a future Scriptorium Page on Thomas Mann. |
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http://www.themodernword.com/scriptorium/mann.html
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| | Technorati Tag: Thomas Mann |
| | Buy Thomas Mann Books at Barnes and Noble Buy books by Thomas Mann at Barnes and Noble. | | | Thomas Mann and "brown arms and open shirt...... | | | I've had a long meeting with myself just now, myself, who has been thinking for months that I ought to read Mann for you. |
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| | Thomas Mann Winner of the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature |
| | Two books on Thomas Mann, one of it a dissertation the other a novel (submitted by Dr. | | | Thomas Mann Winner of the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature | | | BBC Centurions - Thomas Mann (submitted by Chris Moxey) |
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| | IPL Online Literary Criticism Collection |
| | Considered one of the greatest German writers of the twentieth century, and winner of the 1929 Nobel Prize in literature. | | | This page contains some useful links to resources on Mann and his works, including bibliographies at Books.com. | | | There are no other sites about Thomas Mann in the collection; do you know of any that you can recommend? |
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| | Thomas Tempelmann's REALbasic tips & demos |
| | This REALbasic Plugin Webring site is owned by Thomas Tempelmann. | | | Welcome to the REALbasic page of Thomas Tempelmann | | | Here you'll find some tips, examples, reusable classes and plugins for REALbasic. |
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| | Mann, Thomas: The Magic Mountain (Der Zauberberg) |
| | He began writing The Magic Mountain in 1912, in a humorous vein. | | | The depiction of sanatorium life was triggered by Mann's own experience when his wife was confined for several months. | | | In the informative afterword written retrospectively, Mann states that "what [Hans] came to understand is that one must go through the deep experience of sickness and death to arrive at a higher sanity and health. |
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http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/lit-med/lit-med-db/webdocs/webdescrips/mann313-des-.html
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| | ReadingGroupGuides.com - Death in Venice by Thomas Mann |
| | His desire sprouted eyes, his imagination, as yet unstilled from its morning labors, conjured forth the earth's manifold wonders and horrors in his attempt to visualize them: he saw. | | | ReadingGroupGuides.com - Death in Venice by Thomas Mann | | | Excerpted from Death in Venice © Copyright 2006 by Thomas Mann. |
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http://www.readinggroupguides.com/guides3/death_in_venice3.asp
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| | W. Brook: Thomas Mann's "War Guilt" (December 1947) |
| | This reply, couched in polemical and general language, did not increase our knowledge of the contents of that mysterious letter. | | | If Mann had written nothing but best sellers on the psychological intricacies in the relations between Joseph and Potiphar, his letter would be of minor interest. | | | Perhaps Mann does not know that for the rest of the German people emigration was a thousand times more difficult than it was for him; that even the mere application for a passport would have meant certain and horrible death for most applicants not lucky enough to reside in Switzerland. |
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http://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/ni/vol13/no09/brook.htm
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| | Thomas Mann: |
| | Three Philosophical Novelists: James Joyce, André Gide, Thomas Mann | | | Thomas Mann Studies: a Bibliography of Criticism, Volume II Thomas Mann and German Literature: | | | The Poet’s Self and the poem: Essays on Goethe, Nietzsche, Rilke and Thomas Mann |
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http://www.ripon.edu/library/resources/mann.htm
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| | Amazon.ca: Thomas Mann: Books |
| | In this new edition, Reed adds a chapter on the new documentation that has appeared since the | | | Look for books like Thomas Mann by subject: | | | Based, in part, on close reading of manuscripts and sources at the Zurich Thomas Mann Archive, Reed's study has long established itself as the standard work in English on Mann's fiction and thought. |
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http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/0198159153
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| | Literary Encyclopedia: Thomas Mann |
| | Mann himself had implied in a letter to his friend Otto Grautoff in 1898 that writing about, and fictionally camouflaging, his homoerotic desires was a central force of his creativity. | | | Thomas Mann moved to Munich with his mother, where he worked in an insurance agency for a year and then decided to make a living as a writer. | | | While Mann’s works from early to late show the influence of these three thinkers, it should be noted that he always, often ironically, played with their ideas, both affirming and questioning them. |
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http://www.literaryencyclopedia.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=2919
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| | Thomas Mann - Wikiquote |
| | Paul Thomas Mann was a German novelist, philanthropist and essayist. | | | Wikisource has original works written by or about Thomas Mann. | | | Tonio Kröger in Mann's short story with the same name |
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http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thomas_Mann
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| | Thomas Mann - Autobiography |
| | In 1937 the University of Bonn deprived him of his honorary doctorate (restored in 1946), which aroused Mann to a famous and moving reply in which he epitomized the situation of the German writer in exile. | | | Thomas Mann (1875-1955) moved to Switzerland in 1933 shortly after the Nazis had come to power and begun a campaign of abuse against him. | | | Mann, who had anticipated and warned against the rise of fascism during the Weimar Republic (e.g., in Mario and the Magician), continued to combat it in many pamphlets and talks throughout the period of the Nazi regime and the Second World War. |
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http://nobelprize.org/literature/laureates/1929/mann-autobio.html
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| | Election 2004: Analysis (washingtonpost.com) |
| | Thomas Mann: Rove appears to have succeeded in increasing the turnout of evangelicals in battleground states. | | | Thomas Mann: Purely rhetorical or symbolic steps won't work. | | | Thomas Mann: I think American has been moving in a more socially tolerant direction for some years. |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20277-2004Nov3.html
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| | Thomas Mann biography |
| | Mann published his first work, DER KLEINE HERR FRIEDMANN, when he was 23. | | | Biography of Thomas Mann, recipient of the 1929 Nobel Prize for Literature, was born in Lubeck, Germany. | | | Thomas Mann, recipient of the 1929 Nobel Prize for Literature, was born in Lubeck, Germany. |
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| | Michael Mann - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Michael Thomas Mann (1919-1977), musician and professor of German literature, son of Thomas Mann. | | | This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title. | | | Michael Mann (sociologist) (born 1942), professor of sociology. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Mann
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| | Thomas Mann: Corporal Punishment |
| | Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain, Chapter 6, Operationes Spirituales | | | It was true that corporal punishment was on the decline in certain countries which considered themselves in the van of progress; but the belief that such a decline was a sign of enlightenment became only the more comic the longer it persisted. |
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| | Deep Throat Revealed (Again) Timothy Noah |
| | Woodward, Mann says, "was able to come up with details about the life and travels of Arthur Bremer... | | | Mann, citing former Post City Editor Barry Sussman's Watergate book, The Great Cover-Up, says that Woodward told Sussman he had a good source at the FBI who could help get information on Wallace's would-be assassin. | | | Mann's article didn't solve the "who" question, but it did pretty persuasively answer the "what" question. |
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http://www.slate.com/id/1003033
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| | Thomas Mann: Tutte le informazioni su Thomas Mann su Encyclopedia.it |
| | Con lei ebbe i figli Erika, Klaus, Golo (Angelus Gottfried Thomas), Monika, Elisabeth e Michael. | | | Thomas Mann: Tutte le informazioni su Thomas Mann su Encyclopedia.it | | | Figlio di una famiglia patrizia di commercianti, era fratello minore di Heinrich Mann. |
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| | Thomas Mann (I) |
| | Thomas Mann was probably Germany's most influential author of the 20th century... | | | Find where Thomas Mann is credited alongside another name | | | Discuss this person with other users on IMDb message board for Thomas Mann (I) |
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| | The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Mann |
| | Mann, Virginia — of Warren, Bradley County, Ark. Republican. | | | Mann, Edward Ames (1867-1915) — of New Mexico. | | | Kentucky state house of representatives 74th District, 1973. |
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| | Thomas Mann |
| | See Hermann Kurzke, Thomas Mann: Life as a Work of Art: A Biography (2005). | | | Submit a correction or make a comment about this profile |
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| | Thomas Mann - definition of Thomas Mann by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia. |
| | Thomas Mann - German writer concerned about the role of the artist in bourgeois society (1875-1955) | | | This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional. | | | Thomas Mann - definition of Thomas Mann by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia. |
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| | Brookings Scholar: Thomas E. Mann |
| | with (fba:form-id=view or fba:form-id=chat or fba:form-id=report or fba:form-id=brookingsreview) cont cont "Thomas E. Mann" --> | | | with (fba:form-id=policybrief) cont cont "Thomas E. Mann" --> | | | Studies on election reform, redistricting, and campaign finance; Mann is also writing a book on Congress with Norman Ornstein |
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| | littlebluelight - Thomas Mann - Buddenbrooks - Study Guide |
| | littlebluelight - Thomas Mann - Buddenbrooks - Study Guide | | | Traces the decline of a well to do German merchant family over four generations through its middle class customs as the family succumbs to modernity and a destructive artistic tendency. | | | Goodwin, Evan, "little blue light - Thomas Mann - Buddenbrooks", Littlebluelight (June 25, 2002 Edition), Evan Goodwin (ed.) URL = http://www.littlebluelight.com/lblphp/indivwork.php?wkey=182 |
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| | Federal Bureau of Investigation - Freedom of Information Privacy Act |
| | Thomas Mann, German author, Nobel prize winner in literature, and naturalized American citizen, was investigated from 1927 through 1955. | | | The security investigation gathered information disclosing Mann's affiliation with communist causes and associates. |
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http://foia.fbi.gov/foiaindex/thommann.htm
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| | ZoomInfo Web Summary: Thomas Mann |
| | Mann is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. | | | View all 41 references for Thomas H. Mann | | | Mann is very active in national mortgage industry affairs. |
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