Magic Mountain, The

Author: Mann, Thomas

Brand: Vintage Classics

Binding: Paperback

Number Of Pages: 752

Release Date: 29-07-1996

model number: 3239353

Part Number: 3239353

Details: This European masterpiece from the Nobel prizewinner explores the lure and degeneracy of ideas in an introverted community on the eve of World War I.Hans Castorp is 'a perfectly ordinary, if engaging young man' when he goes to visit his cousin in an exclusive sanatorium in the Swiss Alps. What should have been a three week trip turns into a seven year stay. Hans falls in love and becomes intoxicated with the ideas he hears at the clinic - ideas which will strain and crack apart in a world on the verge of the First World War.'Magnificent... a beautiful, feverish account of obsessive love' Jonathan Coe, Guardian'The greatest German novelist of the 20th century' Spectator

EAN: 9780749386429

Package Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.1 x 2.8 inches

Languages: English