Thomas Mann Audio Books

LearnOutLoud.com is pleased to present this audio version of Thomas Mann's psychologically probing 1912 novella, Death in Venice.

Part surreal comedy, part grim tragedy, part allegory, and part novel of ideas, Mann’s novel is regarded by many as one of the key literary texts of the twentieth century.

Thomas Mann’s epic novel depicts a decaying, corrupted European society on the eve of the First World War.

Simple and unpretentious as a statement by Francis d’Assisi, yet full of a gentle modern sophistication and humour, this little work will bring delight and refreshment to all who seek flight from the heavy-laden hour.

Royal Highness is the story of Prince Klaus Heinrich, a member of a struggling German duchy and an exotic American heiress who comes to live as his neighbor.

Thomas Mann, author of Death in Venice was a winner of the Nobel Prize for literature.

When Thomas Mann was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature (1929), the citation made special mention of his first novel, “Buddenbrooks,” published in 1901, describing it as “the first great novel of the 20th century.”

Joachim Neugroschel's brilliant new translation lets you enjoy the work of Nobel-Laureate Thomas Mann as never before....

Published on the eve of World War I, a decade after Buddenbrooks had established Thomas Mann as a literary celebrity....

For his Royal Highness, Prince Klaus Heinrich, life means servitude to ducal functions, which he follows unthinkingly until he meets the exotic, spirited, and liberal-minded Miss Spoelmann.