Reference Sources
Weimar Republic in The Oxford Companion to German Literature
Dictionary of Literary Biography: Nobel Prize Laureates in Literature
Article on Thomas Mann is in volume 331.
The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Mann
See chapter 7, "The political becomes personal," for a discussion of Disorder and Early Sorrow.
The Cambridge Companion to the Modern German Novel
See Chapter 10, "The First World War and Its Aftermath."
Secondary Sources
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- Mann, Thomas
- Germany -- History -- 1918-1933
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