Thomas Mann,John E. Woods: The Magic Mountain
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Author: Thomas Mann,John E. Woods
Number of Pages: 904 pages
Published Date: 29 Apr 2005
Publisher: Everyman
Publication Country: London, United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN: 9781857152890
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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 for 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.