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'''''Death in Venice''''' is a 1912 novella written by [[Germany|German]] author Thomas Mann (original title ''Der Tod in Venedig''). The story is about an aged author who travels to [[Venice]] and falls in love with a stunningly good-looking aristocratic fourteen-year-old boy, to whom he never speaks.

The novella is highly autobiographical: while holidaying in Venice, thirty-seven-year-old Mann, a married father, had crushed from afar on a ten-year-old Polish aristocrat, Wladyslaw Moes. Luchino Visconti adapted the novella into a film in 1971 and Benjamin Britten adapted it into an opera in 1973.

Project Gutenberg has a copy [https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/66073 here].

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* [[Blue Blood]]: A German prince nominates Gustav Aschenbach to a nobility on his fiftieth birthday.
* [[Long-Haired Pretty Boy]]
* [[Longing Look]]
* [[Lover and Beloved]]
* [[Love At First Sight]]
* [[Love Epiphany]]
* [[Love Makes You Crazy]]
* [[Love Makes You Evil]]
* [[Stalking Is Love]]
* [[Stalker with a Crush]]
* [[Unresolved Sexual Tension]]
* [[What Beautiful Eyes!]]

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