Mann, Thomas / Lowe-Porter, H.T. (Translator)

The Magic Mountain.

London, Secker & Warburg, 1946. 14.5 cm x 22 cm. IX, 716 pages. Original Hardcover. Very good- condition with only minor signs of external wear. Spotting on first and last few pages, endpapers and pastedowns only. Two small notes made in pencil on endpaper.

This Thomas Mann classic tells the story of a young man growing up in Germany prior to the first World War who is cared for by first his Grandfather and then Uncle after his parents die. On visiting a cousin in a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps he contracts tuberculosis and stays for seven years. World War One breaks out just as he is to leave the sanatorium and he enlists in the army to fight in a war it is alluded he will not return from.

Includes for example the following chapters: At Tienappels’, and of Young Hans’s Moral State / Of Course, A Female! / Sudden Enlightenment / Of the City of God, and Deliverance by Evil / By The Ocean of Time / The Great God Dumps etc.

• Keywords: 20th Century · 20th Century Literature · English Translations · German Literature · German Literature – Rare · Mann, Thomas
• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 60245AB

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