Tony and her brothers Christian and Tom are at the center of a novel about this family, which ends with the death by typhoid of the boy Hanno.
A member of this family constantly complains about an ache which he claims is caused by the nerves on the left side of his body being too short. At the end of a novel about this family, a hunchbacked teacher known as "Sesame" yells "It is so!" to affirm her belief in heaven. A member of this family reads a chapter on "Death and Its Relation to the Indestructibility of Our Essential Nature" days before collapsing following a dental operation. A woman from this family leaves her (*) second husband when she finds him pursuing a maid and had earlier left her first, GrÃ¼nlich, when he went bankrupt. Tony and her brothers Christian and Tom are at the center of a novel about this family, which ends with the death by typhoid of the boy Hanno. For 10 points, name this merchant family whose decline is the subject of a namesake novel by Thomas Mann.
A member of this family constantly complains about an ache which he claims is caused by the nerves on the left side of his body being too short.
the Buddenbrooks