{"product_id":"the-magic-mountain-introduction-by-a-s-byatt-hardcover","title":"The Magic Mountain: Introduction by A. S. Byatt - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eThomas Mann\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJohn E. Woods\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eA. S. Byatt\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMann began working on The Magic Mountain in 1912, following a few weeks' visit to a sanatorium in Switzerland. 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.\" Now it was a massive meditation on \"the inner significance of an epoch, the pre-war period of European history.\" It was an immense international success from the time of its publication.\u003cbr\u003eThe Magic Mountain is the 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. Among the other characters on this Germanic ship of fools are the malapropian Frau Stohr; Hofrat Behrens, the head doctor, and his hearty but sick-looking sidekick, Dr. Krokowski; Ludovico Settembrini, the enlightened humanist; Han's noble cousin Joachim Ziemssen; and Hermine Kleefeld, who, with her whistling pneumothorax, is the pride of the Half-Lung Club. In this community organization completely in reference to disease, Hans Castrop achieves a kind of transcendence unimaginable in the world of the \"flatlands\" below him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThomas Mann was born in 1875 in Germany. He was only twenty-five when his first novel, \u003ci\u003eBuddenbrooks\u003c\/i\u003e, was published. In 1924 \u003ci\u003eThe Magic Mountain\u003c\/i\u003e was published, and, five years later, Mann was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Following the rise of the Nazis to power, he left Germany for good in 1933 to live in Switzerland and then in California, where he wrote \u003ci\u003eDoctor Faustus\u003c\/i\u003e (first published in the United States in 1948). He died in 1955.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 904\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.6 x 8.3 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 21, 2005\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47244954599673,"sku":"9781400044214","price":36.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/sRMitJeifL9781400044214.webp?v=1768595690","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/the-magic-mountain-introduction-by-a-s-byatt-hardcover","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}