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Joseph and His Brothers by Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955; Woods, John E. (John Edwin) is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Joseph and His Brothers about?

This remarkable new translation of the Nobel Prize-winner’s great masterpiece is a major literary event.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. --front flapwords : 656897trant : Yes

Who reads Joseph and His Brothers?

Author

Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955; Woods, John E. (John Edwin)

Publisher

Everyman's Library (Knopf)

Published

1943

Language

EN

ISBN

9781400040018

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, History

Rating

4.43 / 5 (1,111 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14