Author:
Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955.
Imprint:Freeport, NY : Books for Libraries Press, [1968]
Description275 p. ; 22 cm.
Note:Reprint of the 1933 ed.
Note:Most of the essays were chosen from 3 vols. which appeared in Germany under the titles: Rede und Antwort, 1922; Bemühungen, 1925, and Die Forderung des Tages, 1930.
Note:The sufferings and greatness of Richard Wagner.--Goethe, novelist.--Lessing.--Nietzsche and music.--Dürer.--Tolstoi.--Freud's position in the history of modern thought.--Culture and socialism.--On the theory of Spengler.--Joseph Conrad's "The secret agent."--Cosmopolitanism.--On the film.--Sleep, sweet sleep.