Thomas Mann was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and Nobel Prize laureate. His titles include "Buddenbrooks,"" Doctor Faustus, Joseph and His Brothers," and "The Magic Mountain," David Luke has published articles and essays on German literature and various prose and verse translations, including Goethe's "Selected Verse," Kleist's "The Marquise of O and Other Stories," Thomas Mann's "Tonio Kroger and Other Stories," and Goethe's" Roman Elegies,"