Author Thomas Mann recording his book Buddenbrooks in 1941. Mann is seated sideways to a table. He holds a cigarette and his book. He wears a pin-striped three-piece suit with a tie. An angled lamp sits on the table and a microphone with a long-coiled metal neck faces him. A shelf of containers of Talking Book records are behind him. Talking Book Archives, American Foundation for the Blind.
Author Thomas Mann recording his book Buddenbrooks in 1941. Mann is seated sideways to a table. He holds a cigarette and his book. He wears a pin-striped three-piece suit with a tie. An angled lamp sits on the table and a microphone with a long-coiled metal neck faces him. A shelf of containers of Talking Book records are behind him. Talking Book Archives, American Foundation for the Blind.


Buddenbrooks, Thomas Mann, recorded 1941