An Unofficial 'The Rest Is History' Reading List

Buddenbrooks

Author: Thomas Mann

Referenced in 3 episodes

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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'