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The Magic Mountain
The Magic Mountain
Author: Thomas Mann, John E. Woods (Translator)
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 t...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780679772873
ISBN-10: 0679772871
Publication Date: 10/1/1996
Pages: 720
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Publisher: Vintage
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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