The Magic Mountain
Hans Castorp is 'a perfectly ordinary, if engaging young man' when he goes to visit his cousin in an exclusive sanatorium in the Swiss Alps. What should have been a three week trip turns into a seven year stay.
Hans Castorp is 'a perfectly ordinary, if engaging young man' when he goes to visit his cousin in an exclusive sanatorium in the Swiss Alps. What should have been a three week trip turns into a seven year stay.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780749386429 (0749386428)
Publish date: July 29th 1996
Publisher: Vintage Classics
Pages no: 752
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Romance,
Literary Fiction,
20th Century,
Philosophy,
German Literature,
Nobel Prize,
Germany
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IntroductionForewordTranslator's Note--The Magic MountainThe Making of 'The Magic Mountain'