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Author: Mann, Thomas, Woods, John E.

Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

Published on 29 April 2005 by Everyman (Everyman’s Library) in the United Kingdom as part of ‘the Everyman’s Library classics’ series.

Hardback | 904 pages
209 x 137 x 39 | 786g

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.