The Magic Mountain
Will be published approx. on 19. March 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
752 pages
978-0-241-78542-3 (ISBN)
Description
It is summertime in the Swiss Alps. Hans Castorp, an 'ordinary young man', has arrived at an exclusive sanitorium for a brief visit to his convalescent cousin. Once there, time will lose its familiar contours, as Hans himself falls ill and loses himself in a landscape of dreams, beauty and eternal snow.
The Magic Mountain is Thomas Mann's masterwork: a Bildungsroman that is also an allegory of Europe before the devastations of the First World War and a profound meditation on time, art, sickness and death. John E. Woods' virtuoso translations of Thomas Mann's novels are widely recognized as the best versions available in English.
The Magic Mountain is Thomas Mann's masterwork: a Bildungsroman that is also an allegory of Europe before the devastations of the First World War and a profound meditation on time, art, sickness and death. John E. Woods' virtuoso translations of Thomas Mann's novels are widely recognized as the best versions available in English.
Reviews / Votes
The most life-changing novel * Stylist * Magnificent... a beautiful, feverish account of obsessive love -- Jonathan Coe * The Guardian * All the characters in Thomas Mann's masterpiece come considerably closer to speaking English in John E. Woods's version...Woods captures perfectly the irony and humor. * New York Times Book Review * A monumental writer * The Spectator * [Woods's translation] succeeds in capturing the beautiful cadence of [Mann's] ironically elegant prose. * Washington Post Book World * [The Magic Mountain] is one of those works that changed the shape and possibilities of European literature. It is a masterwork, unlike any other. It is also, if we learn to read it on its own terms, a delight, comic and profound, a new form of language, a new way of seeing. -- A. S. ByattMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Penguin Books Ltd
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 35 mm
Weight
500 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-241-78542-3 (9780241785423)
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Thomas Mann (Author)
Thomas Mann (1875-1955) is regarded by many as the greatest German novelist of the 20th century. Mann's first major novel, Buddenbrooks, sold over a million copies in Germany alone, before Hitler banned and burned it. Mann fled Germany and spent the latter part of his life living in Switzerland and America. He wrote many essays as well as novels, and won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1929.
Thomas Mann (1875-1955) is regarded by many as the greatest German novelist of the 20th century. Mann's first major novel, Buddenbrooks, sold over a million copies in Germany alone, before Hitler banned and burned it. Mann fled Germany and spent the latter part of his life living in Switzerland and America. He wrote many essays as well as novels, and won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1929.