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The Magic Mountainby Mann, Thomas
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Book DescriptionCapricorn Pr. LIBRARY BINDING. 0870300318 Capricorn, 1984. Overall this book is in very good condition for its age - clean, tight and unmarked with only typical for an older book signs of aging. The cover has wear on the corners and edges. Pages are clean and intact and there are no notes or highlighting. No remainder marks or other imperfections. (See our photo) . Very Good. Book summaryHans Castorp visits his tubercular cousin Joachim at a sanitarium in Switzerland. While there, he too is diagnosed with the disease, and his brief visit stretches to a stay of seven years. He leaves only when World War I is declared and he returns to Germany to fight. The novel is a classic Bildüngsroman: Hans evolves from a confused and directionless young bourgeois into an intellectual who understands the meaning of life and death.Media Reviews"If novelists are in some degree historians, Thomas Mann was the great historian of the present crisis in Western culture." -- F. W. Dupee "This masterly novel is built on the divide between ordinary life down below and the world of death, disease, and forbidden love, and the life of the mind in the world above." -- William Phillips, Partisan Review "Such is our world that sense and meaning have to be disguised--as irony, or as literature, or as both come together: for instance in 'The Magic Mountain'." -- Erich Heller First LineAn ordinary young man was his way from his hometown of Hamburg to Davos-Platz in the canton of Hamburg to Davos-Plaz in the canton of Graubunden. Other Recommended Books
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