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100			_aMann Thomas
245			_aThe magic mountain _cThomas Mann; H T Lowe-Porter
260			_aBritian _bVintage _c2011
300			_a 724 pages : _b illustrations ; _c 24 cm
505			_t I. Arrival -- _tII. Of the christening basin, and of Grandfather in his twofold guise -- _tIII. Drawing the veil _tIV. Necessary purchases _tV. Soup everlasting _tVI. Changes _tVII. By the ocean of time
520			_aA sanitorium in the Swiss Alps reflects the societal ills of pre-twentieth-century Europe, and a young marine engineer rises from his life of anonymity to become a pivotal character in a story about how a human's environment affects self identity. 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 the years before 1914 was already exhibiting the first symptoms of its own terminal irrationality. The Magic Mountain is a monumental work of erudition and irony, sexual tension and intellectual ferment, a book that pulses with life in the midst of death
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