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Default Review: Buddenbrooks - Thomas Mann

I've found reading Thomas Mann a bit of a challenge. Dr Faustus and Magic Mountain were uniquely engaging, but also tend to have long passages when Mann goes off into his "essay mode", with lengthy philosophical discussions on areas which...

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