The Magic Mountain: Introduction by A. S. Byatt -- Thomas Mann

<p><b>Acclaimed translator John E. Woods has given us the definitive English version of Mann's masterpiece. A monumental work of erudition and irony, sexual tension and intellectual ferment, <i>The Magic Mountain</i> is an enduring classic.</b> <p/>With this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Thomas Mann rose to the front ranks of the great modern novelists, winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929. <i>The Magic Mountain</i> takes place in an exclusive tuberculosis sanatorium in the Swiss Alps-a community devoted to sickness that serves as a fictional microcosm for Europe in the days before the First World War. <p/>To this hermetic and otherworldly realm comes Hans Castorp, an "ordinary young man" who arrives for a short visit and ends up staying for seven years, during which he succumbs both to the lure of eros and to the intoxication of ideas.</p><br><br><b>Author:</b> Thomas Mann<br><b>Publisher:</b> Everyman's Library<br><b>Published:</b> 06/21/2005<br><b>Pages:</b> 904<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Hardcover<br><b>Weight:</b> 1.85lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 8.14h x 5.32w x 1.61d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9781400044214<br><br><b>Review Citation(s): </b><br><i>Ingram Advance</i> 07/01/2005 pg. 47<br><p><b>About the Author</b><br>Thomas Mann was born in 1875 in Germany. He was only twenty-five when his first novel, <i>Buddenbrooks</i>, was published. In 1924 <i>The Magic Mountain</i> was published, and, five years later, Mann was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Following the rise of the