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==Literary works== ===Short stories=== *1893: "A Vision (Prose Sketch)" *1894: "Fallen" ("Gefallen") *1896: "The Will to Happiness" *1896: "Disillusionment" ("Enttäuschung") *1896: "[[Little Herr Friedemann]]" ("Der kleine Herr Friedemann") *1897: "Death" ("Der Tod") *1897: "[[The Clown (short story)|The Clown]]" ("Der Bajazzo") *1897: "The Dilettante" *1897: "Luischen" ("Little Lizzy") – published in 1900 *1898: "[[Tobias Mindernickel]]" *1899: "The Wardrobe" ("Der Kleiderschrank") *1899: "Avenged (Study for a Novella)" ("Gerächt") *1900: "The Road to the Churchyard/The Way to the Churchyard" ("Der Weg zum Friedhof") *1903: "The Hungry/The Starvelings" *1903: "The Child Prodigy/The Infant Prodigy/The Wunderkind" ("Das Wunderkind") *1904: "A Gleam" *1904: "At the Prophet's" *1905: "A Weary Hour/Hour of Hardship/Harsh Hour" *1907: "Railway Accident" *1908: "Anecdote" ("Anekdote") *1911: "The Fight between Jappe and the Do Escobar" ===Novellas=== *1902: ''{{Ill|Gladius Dei|de}}'' *1903: ''[[Tristan (novella)|Tristan]]'' *1903: ''[[Tonio Kröger]]'' *1905: ''[[The Blood of the Walsungs]]'' (''Wӓlsungenblut'') (2nd Edition: 1921)<ref>{{cite web|title=1905 – Thomas Mann, Blood of the Walsungs|url=https://web.duke.edu/secmod/primarytexts/mann1905.html|publisher=Duke University|access-date=18 November 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141129025805/https://web.duke.edu/secmod/primarytexts/mann1905.html|archive-date=29 November 2014}}</ref> *1911: ''Felix Krull'' (''Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull'') – published in 1922 *1912: ''[[Death in Venice]]'' (''Der Tod in Venedig'') *1918: ''[[A Man and His Dog (narrative)|A Man and His Dog/Bashan and I]]'' (''Herr und Hund'') *1925: ''[[Disorder and Early Sorrow|Disorder and Early Sorrow/Chaotic World and Childhood Sorrow]]'' (''Unordnung und frühes Leid'') *1930: ''[[Mario and the Magician]]'' (''Mario und der Zauberer'') *1940: ''[[The Transposed Heads]]'' (''Die vertauschten Köpfe – Eine indische Legende'') *1944: ''[[The Tables of the Law]]'' (''Das Gesetz'') – a contribution for the anthology ''The Ten Commandments'' edited by Armin L. Robinson *1954: ''[[The Black Swan (short story)|The Black Swan]]'' (''Die Betrogene: Erzählung'') ===Novels=== ====Standalone novels==== *1901: ''[[Buddenbrooks]]'' (''Buddenbrooks – Verfall einer Familie'') *1909: ''[[Royal Highness (novel)|Royal Highness]]'' (''Königliche Hoheit'') *1924: ''[[The Magic Mountain]]'' (''Der Zauberberg'') *1939: ''[[Lotte in Weimar: The Beloved Returns]]'' *1947: ''[[Doctor Faustus (novel)|Doctor Faustus]]'' (''Doktor Faustus'') **1949: ''The Origin of [[Doctor Faustus (novel)|Doctor Faustus]]'' (''Die Entstehung des Doktor Faustus'') – autobiographical non-fiction book about the novel *1951: ''[[The Holy Sinner]]'' (''Der Erwählte'') *1954: ''[[Confessions of Felix Krull]]'' (''Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull. Der Memoiren erster Teil''; expanded from 1911 short story), unfinished ====Series==== *''[[Joseph and His Brothers]]'' (''Joseph und seine Brüder'') (1933–43) #''The Stories of Jacob'' (''Die Geschichten Jaakobs'') (1933) #''Young Joseph'' (''Der junge Joseph'') (1934) #''Joseph in Egypt'' (''Joseph in Ägypten'') (1936) #''Joseph the Provider'' (''Joseph, der Ernährer'') (1943) ===Plays=== *1905: ''[[Fiorenza (play)|Fiorenza]]'' *1954: ''Luther's Marriage'' (''Luthers Hochzeit'') (fragment – unfinished) ===Poetry=== *1919: The Song of the Child: An Idyll (Gesang vom Kindchen) *1923: Tristan and Isolde ===Essays=== *1915: "Frederick and the Great Coalition" ("Friedrich und die große Koalition") *1918: ''[[Reflections of a Nonpolitical Man]]'' ("Betrachtungen eines Unpolitischen") *1922: "[[On the German Republic]]" ("Von deutscher Republik") *1930: "A Sketch of My Life" ("Lebensabriß") – autobiographical *1933: "The Suffering and Greatness of Richard Wagner" ("Leiden und Größe Richard Wagners") *1937: "The Problem of Freedom" ("Das Problem der Freiheit"), speech *1938: ''[[The Coming Victory of Democracy]]'' – collection of lectures *1938: "This Peace" ("Dieser Friede"), pamphlet *1938: "Schopenhauer", philosophy and music theory on [[Arthur Schopenhauer]] *1940: "This War!" ("Dieser Krieg!") *1943: ''[[Listen, Germany!]]'' (Deutsche Hörer!) – collection of radio broadcasts *1947: [https://archive.org/details/essaysofthreedec0000unse_q1q9 ''Essays of Three Decades''], translated from the German by H. T. Lowe-Porter. [1st American ed.], New York, A. A. Knopf, 1947. Reprinted as Vintage book, K55, New York, Vintage Books, 1957. Includes "Schopenhauer" *1948: "Nietzsche's Philosophy in the Light of Recent History" *1950: "Michelangelo according to his poems" ("Michelangelo in seinen Dichtungen")<ref>The original text is available [http://www.e-periodica.ch/cntmng?pid=dkm-001:1950:10::1500 ''here''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170413072051/http://www.e-periodica.ch/cntmng?pid=dkm-001:1950:10::1500 |date=13 April 2017 }}</ref> *1958: ''Last Essays''. Includes "Nietzsche's Philosophy in the Light of Recent History" ===Compilations in English=== *1922: [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.124817 ''Stories of Three Decades''] (trans. [[Helen Tracy Lowe-Porter|H. T. Lowe-Porter]]). Includes 24 stories written from 1896 to 1922. First American edition published in 1936. *1963: [https://archive.org/details/deathinvenicesev00thom ''Death in Venice and Seven Other Stories''] (trans. [[Helen Tracy Lowe-Porter|H. T. Lowe-Porter]]). Includes: "Death in Venice"; "Tonio Kröger"; "Mario and the Magician"; "Disorder and Early Sorrow"; "A Man and His Dog"; "The Blood of the Walsungs"; "Tristan"; "Felix Krull". *1970: [https://archive.org/details/toniokrgerothe00mann/page/n5/mode/2up ''Tonio Kröger and Other Stories''] (trans. David Luke). Includes: "Little Herr Friedemann"; "The Joker"; "The Road to the Churchyard"; "Gladius Dei"; "Tristan"; "Tonio Kroger". **Republished in 1988 as "Death in Venice and Other Stories" with the addition of the eponymous story. *1997: [https://archive.org/details/sixearlystories00mann/page/n7/mode/2up ''Six Early Stories''] (trans. Peter Constantine). Includes: "A Vision: Prose Sketch"; "Fallen"; The Will to Happiness"; "Death"; "Avenged: Study for a Novella"; "Anecdote". *1998: [https://archive.org/details/deathinveniceoth00mann_1/mode/2up ''Death in Venice and Other Tales''] (trans. Joachim Neugroschel). Includes: "The Will for Happiness"; "Little Herr Friedemann"; "Tobias Mindernickel"; "Little Lizzy"; "Gladius Dei"; "Tristan"; "The Starvelings: A Study"; "Tonio Kröger"; "The Wunderkind"; "Harsh Hour"; "The Blood of the Walsungs"; "Death in Venice". *1999: [https://archive.org/details/deathinveniceot000mann ''Death in Venice and Other Stories''] (trans. Jefferson Chase). Includes: "Tobias Mindernickel"; "Tristan"; "Tonio Kröger"; "The Child Prodigy"; "Hour of Hardship"; "Death in Venice"; "Man and Dog". *2023: ''New Selected Stories'' (trans. [[Damion Searls]]). Includes: "Chaotic World and Childhood Sorrow";<ref>Previously translated as "Early Sorrow" and as "[[Disorder and Early Sorrow]]"</ref> "A Day in the Life of Hanno Buddenbrook" (excerpt from ''[[Buddenbrooks]]''); "Louisey";<ref>Previously translated as "Little Lizzy"</ref> "Death in Venice"; "Confessions of a Con Artist, by Felix Krull—Part One: My Childhood". [https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/26/books/review/thomas-mann-new-selected-stories.html Review] by [[Colm Tóibín]] * [[Lesley Chamberlain]] writes that, because Mann's works [https://www.the-tls.co.uk/regular-features/letters-to-the-editor/history-wars "have come out of copyright in the US, and will do so in the UK from the start of 2026"], "[m]y own translations of ''[[Death in Venice]]'', and separately of three of the short stories, will appear soon after that date, to be followed by a new English version of ''[[Buddenbrooks]]''".<ref>''TLS'', December 20 / 27, 2024.</ref> In addition, in 2024, [[Susan Bernofsky]] was reported to be working on a translation of ''[[The Magic Mountain]]'',<ref>{{cite news |last1=McGee |first1=Celia |title=The Secret of Thomas Mann's Translator |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/30/books/booksupdate/mrs-lowe-porter-jo-salas.html |access-date=2 October 2024 |work=The New York Times |date=30 January 2024}}</ref> as was Simon Pare.<ref>Watroba, Karolina (29 November 2024). [https://www.the-tls.co.uk/literature-by-region/european-literature/mann-and-the-main-man-essay-karolina-watroba "Mann and the main man: ''The Magic Mountain'' at 100: a century of literary rivalries.] ''TLS''.</ref>
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