BOOKS
Mann, Thomas / Woods, John A. (transl.) / Rosoman, Leonard (illustr.).
The Magic Mountain. A novel.
London, Folio Society, 2000
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Bound, decorated cloth with slipcase, 697pp., 17x24,5cm., illustr. in col. by Leonard Rosoman, in very good condition (slipcover and binding with some traces of use, name and date in pencil on first page).
Itemnummer 15832 
With this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Thomas Mann rose to the front ranks of the great modern novelists, winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929. The Magic Mountain takes place in an exclusive tuberculosis sanatorium in the Swiss Alps?a community devoted to sickness that serves as a fictional microcosm for Europe in the days before the First World War. To this hermetic and otherworldly realm comes Hans Castorp, an ?ordinary young man? who arrives for a short visit and ends up staying for seven years, during which he succumbs both to the lure of eros and to the intoxication of ideas.