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THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN
Thomas Mann
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Description for THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN
Paperback. Hans Castorp is 'a perfectly ordinary, if engaging young man' when he goes to visit his cousin in an exclusive sanatorium in the Swiss Alps. What should have been a three week trip turns into a seven year stay. Translator(s): Lowe-Porter, H.T. Num Pages: 752 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 39. Weight in Grams: 542.
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This European masterpiece from the Nobel prizewinner explores the lure and degeneration of ideas in an introverted community on the eve of the First World War.
Hans Castorp is 'a perfectly ordinary, if engaging young man' when he goes to visit his cousin in an exclusive sanatorium in the Swiss Alps. What should have been a three week trip turns into a seven year stay. Hans falls in love and becomes intoxicated with the ideas he hears at the clinic - ideas which will strain and crack apart in a world ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Condition
New
Number of Pages
752
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780749386429
SKU
V9780749386429
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Ref
99-96
About Thomas Mann
Thomas Mann was born in 1875 in Lubeck, of a line of prosperous and influential merchants. Mann was educated under the discipline of North German schoolmasters before working for an insurance office aged nineteen. During this time he secretly wrote his first tale, Fallen, and shortly afterwards he left the insurance office to study art and literature at the University ... Read more
Reviews for THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN
Magnificent... a beautiful, feverish account of obsessive love
Jonathan Coe
Guardian
Featuring lengthy debates between humanist freemasons and Jews-turned-Catholics, a long love-scene written entirely in French and a brilliant hallucinatory journey down the snowy slopes, it merits multiple readings. A novel for a lifetime not just a rainy afternoon
Guardian
A monumental writer
Sunday ... Read more
Jonathan Coe
Guardian
Featuring lengthy debates between humanist freemasons and Jews-turned-Catholics, a long love-scene written entirely in French and a brilliant hallucinatory journey down the snowy slopes, it merits multiple readings. A novel for a lifetime not just a rainy afternoon
Guardian
A monumental writer
Sunday ... Read more