Read Death in Venice

Four generations of a Lubeck merchant family in decline; Mann's Nobel novel at 26.

Seven years in a Davos sanatorium arguing about Europe before 1914.

Marco Polo describes fifty-five cities to Kublai Khan, all of them Venice.

Iago whispers and the Moor of Venice believes him; the tragedy of a handkerchief.

Grieving parents in a winter Venice and a small figure in a red coat.

Donald Sutherland as a mechanical seducer in a Venice built entirely in the studio.

Franz Biberkopf out of prison in 1928 Berlin; Doblin's montage novel of the city.

Harry Haller, half man and half wolf, and the Magic Theatre; Hesse's midlife crisis.