Tonio Kröger: New Translation, Complete Thomas Mann eBook Edition (Novelaris)

Thomas Mann's Tonio Kröger tells of a man who belongs nowhere. The son of a Lübeck merchant and a mother with an artistic temperament, Tonio lives between two worlds: drawn to the clean, ordinary life that never quite opens to him, and uneasy among artists whose poses he can't fully trust. The story follows Tonio from schoolroom longing into adulthood, where his gifts become both his vocation and his distance from other people. He becomes a writer — successful, observant, and solitary — wat...