Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann

Buddenbrooks

Thomas Mann with John E. Woods (Translator), David Rintoul (Narrator)

26 hours, 57 minutes • first pub 1901 (editions) user-added

fiction classics challenging reflective slow-paced
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"The Buddenbrook clan is everything you'd expect of a nineteenth-century German merchant family - wealthy, esteemed, established. Four generations later, a tide of twentieth-century modernism has gradually disintegrated the bourgeois values on whi...

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Community Reviews

4.06
based on 2,025 reviews

Moods

reflective: 74%

challenging: 48%

emotional: 45%

sad: 44%

funny: 21%

dark: 18%

informative: 16%

tense: 13%

relaxing: 7%

inspiring: 6%

adventurous: 3%

hopeful: 3%

lighthearted: 2%

mysterious: 2%

Pace

1% of readers chose fast
23% of readers chose medium
75% of readers chose slow
fast
medium
slow

Plot or character driven?

12% of readers chose Plot
27% of readers chose A mix
59% of readers chose Character
1% of readers chose N/A
Plot
A mix
Character
N/A

Strong character development?

54% of readers chose Yes
20% of readers chose Complicated
24% of readers chose No
Yes
Complicated
No

Loveable characters?

29% of readers chose Yes
54% of readers chose Complicated
15% of readers chose No
Yes
Complicated
No

Diverse cast of characters?

20% of readers chose Yes
9% of readers chose Complicated
62% of readers chose No
7% of readers chose N/A
Yes
Complicated
No
N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus?

80% of readers chose Yes
10% of readers chose Complicated
5% of readers chose No
2% of readers chose N/A
Yes
Complicated
No
N/A

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