The Magic Mountain
by Thomas Mann
ISBN: 067973645X
ISBN-13: 9780679736455
Format: Paperback
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Summary
Hans 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.
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"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
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Random House Inc
Published date: 1993
Size: 5.25 x 8 inches
Weight: 1.3 pounds
Publisher's Notes
Set in the dreamlike world of a Swiss health sanatorium, here is a story of a young man's enlightenment through his encounters with sickness and death; an elegy to the romanticism of the European bourgeoisie in the days prior World War I.
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The Magic Mountain
Mann, Thomas
: Vintage. Good. 1992. Soft Cover. 067973645x Cover some wear. . ( more information) Offered by bookstore brengelman (United States)
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The Magic Mountain
Mann, Thomas
Vintage, 1992. Softcover. NF. Light rubbing.. no. Vintage International. Translated by H.T. Lowe-Porter. Heavy book may require more postage. Trade Paperback ( more information) Offered by Old Goat Books (Canada)
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The Magic Mountain
Mann, Thomas; Lowe-Porter, H. T. (Translator)
New York, NY, U.S.A.: Knopf Publishing Group, 1992 Good Very Good Ex Library Collectible Goodwear and rubbing to cover, ex-library book with usual markings (card holder, stamps, etc. ),. Trade Paperback. Good/Unknown. ( more information) Offered by Picasso Books (United States)
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