{"product_id":"doctor-faustus-thomas-mann-9780679409960","title":"Doctor Faustus: Introduction by T. J. Reed","description":"\u003cp\u003eThomas Mann wrote his last great novel, \u003ci\u003eDoctor Faustus\u003c\/i\u003e, during his exile from Nazi Germany. Although he already had a long string of masterpieces to his name, in retrospect this seems to be the novel he was born to write. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA modern reworking of the Faust legend in which a twentieth-century composer sells his soul to the devil for the artistic power he craves, the story brilliantly interweaves music, philosophy, theology, and politics. Adrian Leverk hn is a talented young composer who is willing to go to any lengths to reach greater heights of achievement. What he gets is twenty-four years of genius--years of increasingly extraordinary musical innovation intertwined with progressive and destructive madness. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A scathing allegory of Germany's renunciation of its own humanity and its embrace of ambition and nihilism, \u003ci\u003eDoctor Faustus\u003c\/i\u003e is also a profound meditation on artistic genius. Obsessively exploring the evil into which his country had fallen, Mann succeeds as only he could have in charting the dimensions of that evil; his novel has both the pertinence of history and the universality of myth. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Translated from the German by H. T. Lowe-Porter \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Thomas Mann\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0679409963\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780679409960\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Everyman's Library\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/02\/1992\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 580\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.34lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.18h x 5.21w x 1.21d","brand":"Thomas Mann","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44047770878207,"sku":"9780679409960","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_617e6cde-e4a5-4ca2-8d0d-3be4e7497f11.jpg?v=1684992086","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/doctor-faustus-thomas-mann-9780679409960","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}