Death in Venice (German: Der Tod in Venedig) is a novella written by the German author Thomas Mann published in 1912. The work presents a great writer who visits Venice and is liberated, uplifted, and then increasingly obsessed by the sight of a stunningly beautiful youth. Tadzio, the boy in the story, is the nickname for the Polish name Tadeusz and is based on a boy Mann had seen during his visit to Venice in 1911. As the story opens, he is strolling...

Translates twentieth-century Nobel Prize-winning German writer Thomas Mann's novella "Death in Venice," as well as seven of his short stories.

A famous composer takes a vacation in Venice, where he becomes obsessed with a young man. When a cholera epidemic takes over the city, he does not leave, just to stay near the boy.