Stanley Corngold: Weimar in Princeton: Thomas Mann and the Kahler Circle (New Directions in German Studies) [2022] paperback ZTEEN I could literally feel the

I could literally feel the sand between my toes and taste the salt in the air

the opportunity to freely travel and socialise cut short

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Stanley Corngold: Weimar in Princeton: Thomas Mann and the Kahler Circle (New Directions in German Studies) [2022] paperback ZTEEN I could literally feel theThomas Mann arrived in Princeton in 1938, in exile from Nazi Germany, and feted in his new country as "the greatest living man of letters." This beautiful new book from literary critic Stanley Corngold tells the little known story of Mann's early years in America and his encounters with a group of highly gifted emigres in Princeton, which came to be called the Kahler Circle, with Mann at its center. The Circle included immensely creative, mostly