The magic mountain

The magic mountain: a novel

by Mann, Thomas

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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<U+2013>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 s…

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Title Statements

  • Full title :The magic mountain : a novel / Thomas Mann ; translated from the German by John E. Woods ; with an introduction by A.S. Byatt.

Summary

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<U+2013>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.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2005.

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Everymans Library
  • Place of Publication:New York
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2005.

The Physical Object

  • Description:854 pages ; : 22 cm

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:1400044219, 9781400044214
  • oclc:on1022879835
  • LC Classification:PT2625.A44
  • Dewey Decimal:833/.912

Subjects

Fiction Germany Germany -- Fiction Sanatoriums Sanatoriums -- Fiction Sanatoriums -- Romans, nouvelles, etc

Writers

Mann, Thomas Woods, John E. (John Edwin)

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