Tristan Thomas Mann

Short stories

• 1893: "A Vision (Prose Sketch)"
• 1894: "Fallen" ("Gefallen")
• 1896: "The Will to Happiness"
• 1896: "Disillusionment" ("Enttäuschung")
• 1896: "Little Herr Friedemann" ("Der kleine Herr Friedemann")
• 1897: "Death" ("Der Tod")
• 1897: "The Clown" ("Der Bajazzo")
• 1897: "The Dilettante"
• 1897: "Luischen" ("Little Lizzy") – published in 1900
• 1898: "Tobias Mindernickel"
• 1899: "The Wardrobe" ("Der Kleiderschrank")
• 1899: "Avenged (Study for a Novella)" ("Gerächt")
• 1900: "The Road to the Churchyard/The Way to the Churchyard" ("Der Weg zum Friedhof")
• 1903: "The Hungry/The Starvelings"
• 1903: "The Child Prodigy/The Infant Prodigy/The Wunderkind" ("Das Wunderkind")
• 1904: "A Gleam"
• 1904: "At the Prophet's"
• 1905: "A Weary Hour/Hour of Hardship/Harsh Hour"
• 1907: "Railway Accident"
• 1908: "Anecdote" ("Anekdote")
• 1911: "The Fight between Jappe and the Do Escobar"

Novellas

• 1902: Gladius Dei
• 1903: Tristan
• 1903: Tonio Kröger
• 1905: The Blood of the Walsungs (Wӓlsungenblut) (2nd Edition: 1921)[51]
• 1911: Felix Krull (Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull) – published in 1922
• 1912: Death in Venice (Der Tod in Venedig)
• 1918: A Man and His Dog/Bashan and I (Herr und Hund)
• 1925: Disorder and Early Sorrow/Chaotic World and Childhood Sorrow (Unordnung und frühes Leid)
• 1930: Mario and the Magician (Mario und der Zauberer)
• 1940: The Transposed Heads (Die vertauschten Köpfe – Eine indische Legende)
• 1944: The Tables of the Law (Das Gesetz) – a contribution for the anthology The Ten Commandments edited by Armin L. Robinson
• 1954: The Black Swan (Die Betrogene: Erzählung)

Novels

Standalone novels

• 1901: Buddenbrooks (Buddenbrooks – Verfall einer Familie)
• 1909: Royal Highness (Königliche Hoheit)
• 1924: The Magic Mountain (Der Zauberberg)
• 1939: Lotte in Weimar: The Beloved Returns
• 1947: Doctor Faustus (Doktor Faustus)
  • 1949: The Origin of Doctor Faustus (Die Entstehung des Doktor Faustus) – autobiographical non-fiction book about the novel
• 1951: The Holy Sinner (Der Erwählte)
• 1954: Confessions of Felix Krull (Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull. Der Memoiren erster Teil; expanded from 1911 short story), unfinished

Series

• Joseph and His Brothers (Joseph und seine Brüder) (1933–43)

1. The Stories of Jacob (Die Geschichten Jaakobs) (1933)
2. Young Joseph (Der junge Joseph) (1934)
3. Joseph in Egypt (Joseph in Ägypten) (1936)
4. Joseph the Provider (Joseph, der Ernährer) (1943)

Plays

• 1905: Fiorenza
• 1954: Luther's Marriage (Luthers Hochzeit) (fragment – unfinished)

Poetry

• 1919: The Song of the Child: An Idyll (Gesang vom Kindchen)
• 1923: Tristan and Isolde

Essays

• 1915: "Frederick and the Great Coalition" ("Friedrich und die große Koalition")
• 1918: Reflections of a Nonpolitical Man ("Betrachtungen eines Unpolitischen")
• 1922: "On the German Republic" ("Von deutscher Republik")
• 1930: "A Sketch of My Life" ("Lebensabriß") – autobiographical
• 1937: "The Problem of Freedom" ("Das Problem der Freiheit"), speech
• 1938: The Coming Victory of Democracy – collection of lectures
• 1938: "This Peace" ("Dieser Friede"), pamphlet
• 1938: "Schopenhauer", philosophy and music theory on Arthur Schopenhauer
• 1940: "This War!" ("Dieser Krieg!")
• 1943: Listen, Germany! (Deutsche Hörer!) – collection of radio broadcasts
• 1947: Essays of Three Decades, translated from the German by H. T. Lowe-Porter. [1st American ed.], New York, A. A. Knopf, 1947. Reprinted as Vintage book, K55, New York, Vintage Books, 1957. Includes "Schopenhauer"
• 1948: "Nietzsche's Philosophy in the Light of Recent History"
• 1950: "Michelangelo according to his poems" ("Michelangelo in seinen Dichtungen")[52]
• 1958: Last Essays. Includes "Nietzsche's Philosophy in the Light of Recent History"

Compilations in English

• 1922: Stories of Three Decades (trans. H. T. Lowe-Porter). Includes 24 stories written from 1896 to 1922. First American edition published in 1936.
• 1963: Death in Venice and Seven Other Stories (trans. H. T. Lowe-Porter). Includes: "Death in Venice"; "Tonio Kröger"; "Mario and the Magician"; "Disorder and Early Sorrow"; "A Man and His Dog"; "The Blood of the Walsungs"; "Tristan"; "Felix Krull".
• 1970: Tonio Kröger and Other Stories (trans. David Luke). Includes: "Little Herr Friedemann"; "The Joker"; "The Road to the Churchyard"; "Gladius Dei"; "Tristan"; "Tonio Kroger".
  • Republished in 1988 as "Death in Venice and Other Stories" with the addition of the eponymous story.
• 1997: Six Early Stories (trans. Peter Constantine). Includes: "A Vision: Prose Sketch"; "Fallen"; The Will to Happiness"; "Death"; "Avenged: Study for a Novella"; "Anecdote".
• 1998: Death in Venice and Other Tales (trans. Joachim Neugroschel). Includes: "The Will for Happiness"; "Little Herr Friedemann"; "Tobias Mindernickel"; "Little Lizzy"; "Gladius Dei"; "Tristan"; "The Starvelings: A Study"; "Tonio Kröger"; "The Wunderkind"; "Harsh Hour"; "The Blood of the Walsungs"; "Death in Venice".
• 1999: Death in Venice and Other Stories (trans. Jefferson Chase). Includes: "Tobias Mindernickel"; "Tristan"; "Tonio Kröger"; "The Child Prodigy"; "Hour of Hardship"; "Death in Venice"; "Man and Dog".
• 2023: New Selected Stories (trans. Damion Searls). Includes: "Chaotic World and Childhood Sorrow";[53] "A Day in the Life of Hanno Buddenbrook" (excerpt from Buddenbrooks); "Louisey";[54] "Death in Venice"; "Confessions of a Con Artist, by Felix Krull—Part One: My Childhood". Review by Colm Tóibín