The Magic Mountain

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.

• | Author: Thomas Mann
• | Publisher: Vintage
• | Publication Date: October 01, 1996
• | Number of Pages: 720 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0679772871
• | ISBN-13: 9780679772873