Joseph The Provider

Alfred A Knopf, New York, 1944. Alfred A Knopf, New York, Stated First American Edition,1944. Black cloth over boards, gold lettering. No DJ. Good copy. Very Good, clean,bright, no bumped corners,no writing or owner's plates/No DJ.. Thomas Mann regarded his monumental retelling of the biblical story of Joseph as his magnum opus. He conceived of the four parts -- The Stories of Jacob, Young Joseph, Joseph in Egypt, and Joseph the Provider -- as a unified narrative, a "mythological novel" of Joseph's fall into slavery and his rise to be lord over Egypt. Deploying lavish, persuasive detail, Mann conjures for us the world of patriarchs and pharaohs, the ancient civilizations of Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Palestine, and the universal force of human love in all its beauty, desperation, absurdity, and pain. The result is a brilliant. Alfred A Knopf, New York, Stated First American Edition,1944. Very Good, clean,bright, no bumped corners,no writing or owner's plates. Black cloth over boards, gold lettering. No DJ. Good copy.