Joseph and His Brothers: Young Joseph

“Joseph and His Brothers” is a sweeping tetralogy that Thomas Mann worked on from 1926 to 1942, and which he himself considered his most significant work. The plot of the biblical tale of Joseph the Beautiful is placed by the author into the historical context of the reign of Amenhotep III and his son, the “heretic-pharaoh” Akhenaten, so that the legend can be told more fully and vividly, forming an engrossing historical saga based on it.