A title in the Bristol Classical Press German Texts series in German with English notes vocabulary and introduction. Thomas Mann (1875-1955) was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1929 and "Tonio Kroger" occupies a central position in his spiritual and artistic development. A study of youth it draws together many strands of his life and work: the duality of his parentage; his abhorrence of discipline; and the influence of Schopenhauer and Wagner on his early phase of writing.