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Royal Highness

Name: Royal Highness
Author: Thomas Mann
ISBN: 9780520076730

by Thomas Mann, A. Cecil Curtis

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Overview

Royal highness, first published in 1909, represents Thomas Mann's effort to lighten 'the serious and weighty naturalism' he had inherited from the 19th century into a work of art at once intellectual and symbolic, 'a transparency for ideas to shine through.'

Synopsis

"The great virtue of Royal Highness is its relaxed, fairy-tale quality that naturally brings the reader inside that 'Edwardian' calm which preceded everything common to contemporary social life. It is very easy to make connections between the book and theories of stratification, statemaking, ritual, legitimacy, even the political economy of preindustrialized states."—Alan Sica, author of Weber, Irrationality, and Social Order

About the Author, Thomas Mann

Thomas Mann (1875-1955), winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1929, wrote essays as well as some of the great novels of the twentieth century, including Buddenbrooks, The Magic Mountain, Death in VeBérénice, Joseph and His Brothers, and Doctor Faustus. Russell A. Berman is the author of The Rise of the Modern German Novel.
Alan Sica is the author of Weber, Irrationality, and Social Order.