The Magic Mountain

1996

by Thomas Mann

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 tension and intellectual ferment, a book that pulses with life in the midst of death.

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720 Pages
Published by Vintage on Oct 01, 1996
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No myths in sight. Maybe they’re out becoming legends! 🏰.

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