This Day in History: Thomas Mann visits the Lido in Venice (1911)

1911 : Thomas Mann visits the Lido in Venice

Thomas Mann visits the Lido in Venice on this day and is inspired with the idea for his novella Death in Venice.

Mann was born in Germany in 1875, the second son of a grain merchant who expected Thomas to take over the business. His father died when Mann was 15, and his mother moved the family to Munich. Mann worked as a clerk at an insurance company and studied to become a journalist. In 1898, he published his first collection of stories, followed by his first novel, Buddenbrooks (1901), the saga of a family's decline from wealth. He published two more novellas, Tonio KrÝger and Tristan, in 1903. Click here to read more.

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	1. MANN, Thomas. Doctor Faustus: The Life of the German Composer Adrian Leverkuhn as Told to a Friend. NY Knopf 1948 Hardcover Fine in Near Fine dust jacket Translated from the German by H. T. Lowe-Porter. First American edition. Laid in is a small card printed with the name of Alfred Knopf, Jr. Fine in a near fine (one tiny chip at the top of the rear panel, spine slightly darkened) dust jacket. Price: 80.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	2. MANN, Thomas. Letters to Paul Amann: 1915-1952. Middletown Wesleyan University Press 1960 Hardcover Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket Translated from the German by Richard and Clara Winston. First edition. Price: 20.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	3. MANN, Thomas. Six Early Stories. Los Angeles Sun & Moon Press 1997 1557132984 Hardcover Fine Translated from the German with a note by Peter Constantine. Edited with an introduction by Burton Pike. First printing. INSCRIBED by the editor. Fine in an about fine (trace rubbing) dust jacket. ISBN: 1557132984. Price: 10.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	4. MANN, Thomas. Stories of Three Decades. London Secker & Warburg 1936 Hardcover Translated from the German by H. T. Lowe-Porter. First British edition. Previous owner's brief inscription on front free endpaper, else very good in a very good (edge worn at the spine ends, age darkened) dust jacket. Publisher's postcard laid in . Price: 75.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	5. MANN, Thomas. This Peace. NY Knopf 1938 Hardcover Very Good in Very Good dust jacket Translated from the German by H. T. Lowe-Porter. First edition. Original post card from the publisher laid in. Gilt lettering on spine partially rubbed off, else very good in very good age darkened dust jacket. Price: 30.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	6. MANN, Thomas. Thomas Mann Diaries: 1918-1939. NY Abrams 1982 0810913046 Hardcover Fine in Near Fine dust jacket Translated from the German by Richard and Clara Winston. First edition. Fine in a very near fine dust jacket with only a bit of edge wear at the corners. Price: 35.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	7. MANN, Thomas. Transposed Heads: A Legend of India. NY Knopf 1950 Hardcover Translated from the German by H. T. Lowe-Porter. Second printing of the American edition. Near fine in a near fine, price clipped dust jacket. A clean, nicely preserved, and attractive copy. Price: 15.00 USD