Tonio Kröger by Thomas Mann

"Tonio Kröger" by Thomas Mann is a novella written in 1901. It traces a writer's journey from childhood to adulthood, exploring the painful divide between artistic sensitivity and bourgeois life. Born to a German merchant father and artistic mother, Tonio feels both superior to and envious of those around him. As he matures into a famous writer, he grapples with a haunting question: must the artist remain forever an outsider to respectable society? A journey to his northern hometown forces him to confront this tension between art and life. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955
Illustrator Simon, Erich M., 1892-
Title Tonio Kröger
[Erstausgabe; Illustrationen von Erich M. Simon]
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonio_Kr%C3%B6ger
Credits Produced by Jana Srna
Reading Level Reading ease score: 77.6 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.
Language German
LoC Class PT: Language and Literatures: Germanic, Scandinavian, and Icelandic literatures
Subject Artists -- Fiction
Subject Denmark -- Fiction
Subject Germany, Northern -- Fiction
Subject Munich (Germany) -- Fiction
Category Text
eBook-No. 38692
Release Date
Last Update Jan 8, 2021
Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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