Thomas Mann's witty and intimate story of a irresistible scoundrel.
First part of two of the saga of the troubled Buddenbrook family and their business in mid 19th century Germany.
Roberto Bolle smuggles himself as a stowaway on an ocean liner that of Hamburg gen New York sets sail. On board is also his lover Barbara Shadwell, whom he wants to marry, but who, at the request of her mother, the syrup millionaire Ceila Shadwell, should marry the oatmeal millionaire David.
