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Loading... Doctor Faustus (Everyman's Library)... checking the page count on Powys, but hesitate to vouch for a book I haven't read.
I will say that Buddenbrooks and Doctor Faustus, also by Mann, are also worth reading... Thanks to Alex Ross' The Rest is Noise: Listening to Music in the Twentieth Century, Thomas Mann's 1947 novel Doctor Faustus is enjoying a renewed popularity. I finished it yesterday morning, only to meet with a notable musicologist that same afternoon who had a copy of the novel in his hand. ... 50 BOOK CHALLENGE #7
BOOK: Doctor Faustus
AUTHOR: Thomas Mann (Translator, John E. Woods)
YEAR: 1947 (Vintage International Edition, 1999)
PAGES: 534
GENRE: fiction
RATING: 4.5 stars out of 5
Thanks to Alex Ross' The Rest is Noise, Thomas Mann's 1947 novel Doctor Faustus is ... In addition to Doctor Faustus (about halfway through), I just started Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook. ... seem like digressions (although he keeps saying they are relevant to Adrian's change in behavior). I'm currently reading Doctor Faustus so I haven't finished it yet, but I'm surprised at how long it is taking me to do so. ... stopped worrying about length because I've found it doesn't matter. For example, I zoomed through Les Miserables, and Doctor Faustus, on the other hand, is taking forever (not because I don't like it, I just find I need to take a breather after each chapter). I'll be curious to see how I ... ... always those sections where I think maybe he's too smart for his own good (thinking of looong music theory digressions in Dr. Faustus) ... the best book is, there are so many great ones. Probably the most memorable three for me among that crowd will be Mann's Doctor Faustus, Laxness' Under the Glacier (yes, I read Independent People as well - it is truly great, but there is something that really struck a chord in Glacier), ... Yesterday I bought a.o. Thomas Mann's Doktor Faustus. A beautiful edition by Fischer Verlag, published in 1986. They had several other volumes of the series it was part of, but most of those I already owned (in other editions). This morning I woke up with the nagging question why I hadn't also ... ... Wodehouse;
American Notes - Pictures from Italy by Charles Dickens;
Sketches by "Boz" by Charles Dickens;
Doktor Faustus by Thomas Mann
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