The Magic Mountain (Paperback)
Thomas Mann (author)- In stock online
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
ISBN: 9780749386429
Number of pages: 752
Weight: 540 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 38 mm
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"Featuring lengthy debates between humanist freemasons and Jews-turned-Catholics, a long love-scene written entirely in French and a brilliant hallucinatory journey down the snowy slopes, it merits multiple readings. A novel for a lifetime not just a rainy afternoon" * Guardian *
"A monumental writer" * Sunday Telegraph *
"The greatest German novelist of the 20th century" * Spectator *
"Mann is Germany's outstanding modern classic, a decadent representative of the tradition of Goethe and Schiller. With his famous irony, he was up there with Schopenhauer, Nietzsche and Freud, holding together the modern world with a love of art and imagination to compensate for the emptiness left by social and religious collapse." * Independent *
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