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Death in Venice

By: Thomas Mann
Narrated by: Peter Noble
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The masterful novella by Nobel laureate, Thomas Mann.

Published on the eve of World War I, a decade after Buddenbrooks had established Thomas Mann as a literary celebrity, Death in Venice tells the story of Gustav von Aschenbach, a successful but aging writer who follows his wanderlust to Venice in search of spiritual fulfillment that instead leads to his erotic doom.

In the decaying city, besieged by an unnamed epidemic, he becomes obsessed with an exquisite Polish boy, Tadzio. "It is a story of the voluptuousness of doom," Mann wrote. "But the problem I had especially in mind was that of the artist's dignity".

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"...one of the most haunting and beautifully wrought works in all of literature." (Literary Corner)

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