![]() ![]() ![]() He was only twenty-five when his first novel, Buddenbrooks, was published. ByattĪbout the Author Thomas Mann was born in 1875 in Germany. 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 new Introduction by A. Woods captures perfectly the irony and humor." - New York Times Book Review " succeeds in capturing the beautiful cadence of ironically elegant prose." - Washington Post Book World " is one of those works that changed the shape and possibilities of European literature. ![]() "All the characters in Thomas Mann's masterpiece come considerably closer to speaking English in John E. ![]() 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. 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. 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. A monumental work of erudition and irony, sexual tension and intellectual ferment, The Magic Mountain is an enduring classic. Woods has given us the definitive English version of Mann's masterpiece. ![]()
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