LearnOutLoud.com is pleased to present this audio version of Thomas Mann's psychologically probing 1912 novella, Death in Venice. In this story, Mann introduces us to Gustav Achenbach, a well respected man of letters, whose strict dedication to his craft has led him to the kind of solitary loneliness reserved for great thinkers. After deciding to take a vacation in order to reduce his stress, he finds his way to Venice and makes a discovery there that awakens a passion within himself that he'd suppressed his entire life. Death in Venice is an indelible portrait of what happens when the passions of life collide with the intellect.
Translated from the German 1912 edition by Martin C. Doege.