Condition: Acceptable. Please see the images for more details. May show signs of wear such as:
• Shelf wear or scuffing on the cover
• Creases, marks, or tears on pages or dust jacket
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Blurb: “'Death in Venice' tells how Gustave von Aschenbach, a writer utterly absorbed in his work, arrives in Venice as the result of a
'youthfully ardent thirst for distant scenes', and meets there a young boy by whose beauty he becomes obsessed. His pitiful pursuit of the object of his abnormal affection and its inevitable and pathetic climax is told here with the particular skill the author has for this shorter form of fiction.
The same skill is evident in 'Tristan' and
'Tonio Kröger'. The action of 'Tristan' takes place in a sanatorium, and, as he did in his long novel, The Magic Mountain the author brilliantly portrays the uncertain emotions of people who are forced to live in such places.
The theme of 'Tonio Kröger' is that of the artist striving to conform to the pattern of everyday existence.
The cover shows a detail of J. M. W. Turner's
'A Venetian Scene - San Benedetto, looking towards Fusina', in the National Gallery, London (Snark International)”