The magic mountain :
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Translated from the German by H.T. Lowe-Porter.
Description
- Language(s)
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English
- Published
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New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1939.
- Summary
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The story involves a young man (Hans Castorp), who visits a cousin in a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps before World War I. After manifesting symptoms of tuberculosis, he remains there for seven years. The characters he meets during this time forms a microcosm of pre-war Europe and represents a classic example of the German Bildungsroman. The work was instrumental in winning Mann the Nobel Prize in Literature for 1929.
- Note
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"Published May 6, 1927. One-volume edition, October, 1939."
Also issued online.
- Physical Description
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899 pages ;
22 cm
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