ENGLISH

The Magic Mountain

By A. S. Byatt , Thomas Mann , John E. Woods

Book information

Publisher
Everyman's Library
Year
2005
ISBN
1400044219, 9781400044214
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
1004 kB (1028318 bytes)
Series
Everyman's Library
Pages
904\0
Time added
2013-12-07 00:46:29

Description

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. 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.(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)

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