An Unofficial 'The Rest Is History' Reading List
Episodes Referencing This Book
January 19, 2023
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Explicitly mentioned as Thomas Mann's 'great book' set in Lübeck, referenced when discussing the respectable middle-class Germans before WWI and their Protestant virtues.
August 18, 2022
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Described as a 'brilliant novel' about a German family who frequently visit Travemünde near Lübeck, in the context of discussing German seaside resorts.
January 13, 2022
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Described as 'the great book about kind of bourgeois German Victorianism... about this family in Lübeck'