The Magic Mountain
Author:
Thomas Mann
Publisher:
Vintage International
ISBN:
9780679772873
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Format:
Paperback
Age From:
0
Age To:
0
Publishing Date:
1995
Number of Pages:
706
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Editor:
Translator:
John E. Woods
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Language:
English
Condition:
New
A monumental work of erudition and irony, sexual tension and intellectual ferment, The Magic Mountain is an enduring classic.
With this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Thomas Mann rose to the front ranks of the great modern novelists, winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929. The Magic Mountain takes place in an exclusive tuberculosis sanatorium in the Swiss Alps–a community devoted to sickness that serves as a fictional microcosm for Europe in the days before the First World War.
To this hermetic and otherworldly realm comes Hans Castorp, an “ordinary young man” who arrives for a short visit and ends up staying for seven years, during which he succumbs both to the lure of eros and to the intoxication of ideas.