Death in Venice & A Man and His Dog

Death in Venice & A Man and His DogWritten in 1912, Death in Venice is Thomas Mann's best known novella a haunting, elegiac masterpiece in which the main character, Gustav Aschenbach, is a successful and much revered author. While vacationing in Venice, this highly disciplined writer, who always has maintained extraordinary control of his literary creations, finds himself suddenly overwhelmed by an all consuming love for a beautiful young boy. A deadly epidemic sweeps through the city,

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Reprint of the first 1907 edition

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It includes over 700 wonderfully graceful and imaginative designs featuring flowers

Strong on the psychology

Jewish mysticism

Boston abolitionist Benjamin Drew visited numerous Canadian towns

Two concluding chapters extend the discussion to hydrodynamics and natural philosophy

including the author's famous arrangement of Carnival in Venice

rational psychologies

2nd edition