A Quick Guide to Thomas Mann's novel, Doctor Faustus (in lego)

Thomas Mann’s Doctor Faustus (1947) is an expansive, challenging novel that serves as a fictional biography of a gifted composer while acting as a profound allegory for the cultural and political collapse of Germany during the Third Reich .

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A Quick Guide to Thomas Mann's novel, Doctor Faustus (in lego)

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