In this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Mann uses a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps--a community devoted exclusively to sickness--as a microcosm for Europe, which in the years before 1914 was already exhibiting the first symptoms of its own terminal irrationality. "The Magic Mountain" is a monumental work of erudition and irony, sexual tension and intellectual ferment, a book that pulses with life in the midst of death.
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In this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Mann uses a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps--a community devoted exclusively to sickness--as a microcosm for Europe, which in the years before 1914 was already exhibiting the first symptoms of its own terminal irrationality. "The Magic Mountain" is a monumental work of erudition and irony, sexual tension and intellectual ferment, a book that pulses with life in the midst of death.
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1982. Oxford University. Hard Cover. Book-VG+, a.e.g., quarter leather bound, gilt titles on banded spine, heavy gilt decoration on boards, brown boards. 9.5x6.5. 724pp. Frontis & some b/w illus by Gonzalo Fonseca, marbled endpapers. Hans Castorp, an impressionable naval engineer, arrives at the Swiss sanatorium of Haus Berghof for a three-week visit to his tubercular cousin, and is himself diagnosed a victim of the disease. Electing to stay on for a cure at this timeless 'magic' mountain retreat for seven years, he is taken under wing by several characters whose conflicting ideologies compete for his mind, and who personify the ferment that beset European civilization in the years prior to the 1914-1918 war.
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New. Translator(s): Woods, John E. Num Pages: 904 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 137 x 39. Weight in Grams: 804. 2005. Hardcover.....We ship daily from our Bookshop.
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