THOMAS MANN: New Selected Stories

A towering figure in the pantheon of 20th century literature, Mann has often been perceived as a dry and forbidding writer--"the starched collar," as Bertolt Brecht once called him. But in fact, his fiction is lively, humane, sometimes hilarious. In these fresh renderings of his best short work, this casts new light on this underappreciated aspect of Mann's genius.