![]() ![]() IN 1933 Thomas Mann left Germany for Switzerland. In 1929 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. His second great novel, The Magic Mountain, was published in 1924 and the first volume of his tetralogy Joseph and his Brothers in 1933. Before it was banned and burned by Hitler, it had sold over a million copies in Germany alone. He was only twenty-five when Buddenbrooks, his first major novel, was published. After a year in Rome he devoted himself exclusively to writing. During this time he secretly wrote his first tale, Fallen, and shortly afterwards left the insurance office to study art and literature at the University in Munich. Mann was educated under the discipline of North German schoolmasters before working for an insurance office aged nineteen. Thomas Mann was born in 1875 in Lubeck, of a line of prosperous and influential merchants. ![]()
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