Death in Venice and Other Stories

'impossible here, absurd, depraved, ludicrous and yet sacred, still honourable, even here: "I love you!"'

This volume contains a generous selection of the short fiction Thomas Mann published in the years 1897 to 1912, after which he turned to larger-scale projects. The acknowledged classic among the early shorter fiction is the novella Death in Venice, in which Mann develops a lyrical style and a range of mythological allusions, through the forbidden love of a middle-aged man for a teenage b...