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Joseph and his brothers : the stories of Jacob, young Joseph, Joseph in Egypt, Joseph the provider / Thomas Mann ; translated from the German by John E. Woods.

by Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955.

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Alfred A. Knopf/Everyman's Library, 2005.

Joseph (Son of Jacob) -- Fiction.

Bible. O.T. Genesis -- History of Biblical events -- Fiction.

Everyman's library (Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.) ; 287.

Joseph und seine Brüder. English

Alternate title:

Stories of Jacob, young Joseph, Joseph in Egypt, Joseph the provider

xl, 1492 p. ; 22 cm.

"A Borzoi Book".

Collected edition first published by Secker & Warburg in 1956.

Original published in German as "Joseph und seine Brüder" in four volumes.

Translated from the German.

Includes bibliographical references (p. xvii-xix).

"Thomas Mann regarded his monumental retelling of the biblical story of Joseph as his magnum opus. He conceived of the four parts - The Stories of Jacob, Young Joseph, Joseph in Egypt, and Joseph the Provider - as a unified narrative, a "mythological novel" of Joseph's fall into slavery and his rise to be lord over Egypt. Deploying lavish, persuasive detail, Mann conjures for us the world of patriarchs and pharaohs, the ancient civilizations of Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Palestine, and the universal force of human love in all its beauty, desperation, absurdity, and pain. The result is a brilliant amalgam of humor, emotion, psychological insight, and epic grandeur. Now the award-winning translator John E. Woods gives us a definitive new English version of Joseph and His Brothers that is worthy of Mann's achievement, revealing the novel's exuberant polyphony of ancient and modern voices, a rich music that is by turns elegant, coarse, and sublime."--Publisher.

Historical fiction.

Classic fiction.

German fiction -- Translations into English.

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