num_pages: 737
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: Joachim Ziemssen, Ludovico Settembrini, Hermine Kleefeld, Clavdia Chauchat, Hans Castorp, Pieter Peeperkorn
genres: Fiction, 20th Century, Classics, Philosophy, German Literature, Nobel Prize, Germany, Literary Fiction, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 47390
places: Switzerland, Hamburg, Germany, Italy, Davos
awards: awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize
category: John E. Woods
publisher: Vintage/Alfred A. Knopf