Front matter
H. T. (Helen Tracy) Lowe-Porter translation
THOMAS MANN
THREE ESSAYS
Translated from the German by H. T. Lowe-Porter
NEW YORK · ALFRED · A · KNOPF
1929
COPYRIGHT 1922, 1925 BY S. FISCHER VERLAG, BERLIN COPYRIGHT 1929 BY ALFRED · A · KNOPF · INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED INCLUDING THE RIGHT TO REPRODUCE THIS BOOK OR PARTS THEREOF IN ANY FORM PUBLISHED OCTOBER, 1929 SECOND PRINTING NOVEMBER, 1929 ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED AS Friedrich und Die Grosse Koalition IN REDE UND ANTWORT AND AS Goethe und Tolstoi and Okkulte Erlebnisse IN BEMÜHUNGEN MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA