Acclaimed translator John E. Woods has given us the definitive English version of Mann’s masterpiece. 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.Author: Thomas Mann
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Everyman’s Library
Published: 06/21/2005
Series: Everyman’s Library Classics & Contemporary Classics
Pages: 904
Weight: 1.85lbs
Size: 8.14h x 5.32w x 1.61d
ISBN: 9781400044214
Language: English
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