num_pages: 706
description: A vast intellectual drama of the forces that play upon modern man, The Magic Mountain is set in a sanitorium in the Swiss Alps--a community organized with exclusive reference to ill health, and a symbol of the diseased society of Europe before 1914.
language: English
title: The Magic Mountain
titlecomplete: The Magic Mountain
characters: Clavdia Chauchat, Hans Castorp, Ludovico Settembrini, Hermine Kleefeld, Pieter Peeperkorn, Joachim Ziemssen
genres: 20th Century, Literature, German Literature, Classics, Literary Fiction, Novels, Philosophy, Germany, Nobel Prize, Fiction
ratings_count: 47398
places: Davos, Italy, Germany, Hamburg, Switzerland
awards: awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize
category: John E. Woods
publisher: Knopf