The Magic Mountain Contributor(s): Mann, Thomas (Author) |
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ISBN: 0679772871 ISBN-13: 9780679772873 Publisher: Vintage
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: October 1996 Annotation: 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. Click for more in this series: Vintage International |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Satire |
Dewey: FIC |
LCCN: 94042885 |
Lexile Measure: 1350(Not Available) |
Series: Vintage International |
Physical Information: 1.25" H x 5.26" W x 8.08" L (1.14 lbs) 720 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 1900-1919 - Cultural Region - Central Europe - Cultural Region - Germany |
Features: Ikids, Price on Product |
Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 10/07/1996 Newsweek 10/08/2007 pg. 14 |
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