"Joseph in Egypt" by Thomas Mann, translated by H.T. Lowe-Porter, complete in two volumes; published by ‎A.A. Knopf, New York, 1938. First Edition of English translation, stated 'Sixth Printing'.

Hard boards, original publisher's cloth, blind embossed title on the front boards, Knopf's colophon on the back boards, gilt lettering on spines [some surface wear]; 5.1/2" x 7.3/4"; Knopf's 'borzoi' decorated endpapers, private exlibris inside front cover and ink written "Peggy Louthan (?) 11/38" on the first blank page vol.1; 664 pages + 5 page list of the books by Thomas Mann + colophon, high quality laid paper, very good condition.

"How Mann manages to pull suspense out of a story that everyone knows is just amazing. But it's a page turner from start to finish - all 664 pages of the two volumes." [a private review]

Paul Thomas Mann (1875-1955) was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. His highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas are noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual. His analysis and critique of the European and German soul used modernized German and Biblical stories, as well as the ideas of Goethe, Nietzsche and Schopenhauer.

Mann was a member of the Hanseatic Mann family and portrayed his family and class in his first novel, Buddenbrooks. His older brother was the radical writer Heinrich Mann and three of his six children, Erika Mann, Klaus Mann and Golo Mann, also became important German writers. When Hitler came to power in 1933, Mann fled to Switzerland. When World War II broke out in 1939, he moved to the United States, returning to Switzerland in 1952. Thomas Mann is one of the best-known exponents of the so-called Exilliteratur, literature written in German by those who opposed or fled the Hitler regime.

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