Word: hanno
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hitherto romantic, Victorian, uncomplicated tribe. For, last he is, the last grown-up at least. His son dies as a boy; we accompany him to school, suffer with him the heartaches and the thousand natural shocks that he is heir to. But the first serious attack on Hanno's health severs the thin thread that holds him to life...
...Hanno Buddenbrook. The son of Thomas. He inherits a musical temperament from his mother, nee Gerda Sorenson. He tries to please his father by showing an interest in the business, but is not very convincing at it. One of his days may be "fuller than a lifetime of the earlier Buddenbrooks," but with him the Buddenbrook line expires...