The Magic Mountain (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics)
By Thomas Mann.
Description
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)With this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Thomas Mann rose to the front ranks of the great modern novelists, winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929. The Magic Mountain takes place in an exclusive tuberculosis sanatorium in the Swiss Alpsâa 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 âordinary young manâ who arrives for a short visit and ends up staying for seven years, during which he succumbs bo...
ISBN(s)
1857152891, 9781857152890
