The Magic Mountain - (Vintage International) by Thomas Mann (Paperback)
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- NOBEL PRIZE WINNER - A monumental work of erudition and irony, sexual tension and intellectual ferment, The Magic Mountain is an enduring classic.
- About the Author: The Modern Library has played a significant role in American cultural life for the better part of a century.
- 720 Pages
- Fiction + Literature Genres, Classics
- Series Name: Vintage International
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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.Book Synopsis
NOBEL PRIZE WINNER - A monumental work of erudition and irony, sexual tension and intellectual ferment, The Magic Mountain is an enduring classic. 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 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.Review Quotes
"All the characters in Thomas Mann's masterpiece come considerably closer to speaking English in John E. Woods's version...Woods captures perfectly the irony and humor." --New York Times Book Review "[Woods's translation] succeeds in capturing the beautiful cadence of [Mann's] ironically elegant prose." --Washington Post Book World "[The Magic Mountain] is one of those works that changed the shape and possibilities of European literature. It is a masterwork, unlike any other. It is also, if we learn to read it on its own terms, a delight, comic and profound, a new form of language, a new way of seeing." --from the Introduction by A. S. Byatt
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The Modern Library has played a significant role in American cultural life for the better part of a century. The series was founded in 1917 by the publishers Boni and Liveright and eight years later acquired by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer. It provided the foundation for their next publishing venture, Random House. The Modern Library has been a staple of the American book trade, providing readers with affordable hardbound editions of important works of literature and thought. For the Modern Library's seventy-fifth anniversary, Random House redesigned the series, restoring as its emblem the running torch-bearer created by Lucian Bernhard in 1925 and refurbishing jackets, bindings, and type, as well as inaugurating a new program of selecting titles. The Modern Library continues to provide the world's best books, at the best prices.Dimensions (Overall): 8.08 Inches (H) x 5.26 Inches (W) x 1.25 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.14 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 720
Series Title: Vintage International
Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres
Sub-Genre: Classics
Publisher: Vintage
Format: Paperback
Author: Thomas Mann
Language: English
Street Date: October 1, 1996
TCIN: 91872327
UPC: 9780679772873
Item Number (DPCI): 247-03-2843
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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