The Magic Mountain: Thomas Mann (Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics) - Hardcover

Mann, Thomas

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1857152891 ISBN 13: 9781857152890

Verlag: Random House Uk, 2005

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Mann Thomas

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Reseña del editor

With this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Thomas Mann rose to the front ranks of the great modern novelists, winning the Nobel Prize for 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.

Biografía del autor

Thomas Mann was born in 1875 in Germany. He was only twenty-five when his first novel, Buddenbrooks, was published. In 1924 The Magic Mountain was published, and, five years later, Mann was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Following the rise of the Nazis to power, he left Germany for good in 1933 to live in Switzerland and then in California, where he wrote Doctor Faustus (first published in the United States in 1948). Thomas Mann died in 1955.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Random House Uk
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1857152891
• ISBN 13: 9781857152890
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 854