This is a story of an unassuming, undistinguished young engineer named Hans Castorp who sits on the balcony of a sanatorium, wrapped in his camel's hair blanket, thermometer in his mouth, naively but earnestly pondering the meaning of life, time, and his love for the beautiful Frau Chauchat.
This European masterpiece from the Nobel prizewinner explores the lure and degeneracy of ideas in an introverted community on the eve of World War I. Hans Castorp is 'a perfectly ordinary, if engaging young man' when he goes to visit his ...
Twelve years later the novel that had begun as a short story appeared in two long volumes. The war that had postponed the book's completion had "incalculably enriched its content.
The Magic Mountain (German: Der Zauberberg) is a novel by Thomas Mann, first published in German in November 1924. It is widely considered to be one of the most influential works of twentieth-century German literature.
This book is a comprehensive commentary on Thomas Mann’s seminal novel, one of the key literary artefacts of the 20th century.
productive lives in India.11 At the same time , it obscures the degree to which the memsahibs ' leisured existence helped to maintain the social boundaries of colonial privilege by marking their gendered role in racial terms .
The squirrel family must move to a new house, but Nonu's not happy Little Nonu Squirrel, playful and daring, has just moved into his new house with Papa Squirrel and Mummy Squirrel.
Volume offering a guide to and reassessment of Thomas Mann's famous novel.
Arne-Sayles's talk of communing with ancient minds and glimpses into other worlds answered all her cosmic longings – the 'Death and Stars' part of her. As soon as her Mathematics degree had concluded, she switched to Anthropology with ...
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...
Space and Time on the Magic Mountain explores the theme of the magic mountain in nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century European literature, especially in selected works of William Wordsworth, Matthew Arnold, James...