books.google.de - Thomas Mann (1875-1955) won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1929. This is a collection of his shorter works. "Death in Venice," later filmed by Lucion Visconti starring Dirk Bogarde, was published in 1911. It is a poetic meditation on art and beauty, where the dying composer Aschenbach (modelled...https://books.google.de/books/about/Death_in_Venice_Tonio_Kr%C3%B6ger_and_Other.html?hl=de&id=Qo4Baym2OrIC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareDeath in Venice, Tonio Kröger, and Other Writings