num_pages: 854
description:  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. Acclaimed translator John E. Woods has given us the definitive English version of Mann’s masterpiece. A monumental work of erudition and irony, sexual tension and intellectual ferment, The Magic Mountain is an enduring classic.(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
language: English
title: The Magic Mountain
titlecomplete: The Magic Mountain
characters: Joachim Ziemssen, Clavdia Chauchat, Hans Castorp, Hermine Kleefeld, Ludovico Settembrini, Pieter Peeperkorn
genres: Classics, Philosophy, Nobel Prize, Novels, German Literature, Germany, 20th Century, Literature, Literary Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 47388
places: Italy, Davos, Germany, Switzerland, Hamburg
awards: awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize
category: John E. Woods
publisher: Everyman's Library