With this remarkably rich novel of ideas, Thomas Mann rose to the top ranks of great contemporary novelists, winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929. The Magic Mountain is set in an exclusive tuberculosis sanatorium in the Swiss Alps - a community devoted to illness that serves as a fictional microcosm of Europe before World War I. In this hermetic and extraordinary realm comes Hans Castorp, a "typical young man" who arrives for a short visit and ultimately stays for seven years, during which he succumbs to both the allure of love and the intoxication of ideas.

Pages: 904, Dimensions: 13.5x13.5cm