Thomas Mann

A ground-breaking biography of one of the twentieth-century's literary titans, Thomas Mann, author of Doctor Faustus, Death in Venice, and The Magic Mountain. From the intimate details of his sexual emancipation to the heart-wrenching relationship with his family to his evolving political identity to the impetus of his great novels, Anthony Heilbut offers original and incisive insight into the life of Thomas Mann as he becomes estranged from his beloved Germany, showing the fine threads in the weave between his life and his art.