THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN - THOMAS MANN - FRANKLIN LIBRARY - LEATHER - RARE EDITION
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** The Magic Mountain ** Nobel Prize winning - Thomas MannIllustrated by Gonzalo FonsecaTranslated by H.T. Lowe-Porter The Franklin LibraryRare EditionBeautiful Binding in Heavy Genuine LeatherPremium Quality
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...Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness. - Thomas Mann 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.Thomas Mann was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and Nobel Prize laureate in 1929, known for his series of highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas, noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual. His analysis and critique of the European and German soul used modernized German and Biblical stories, as well as the ideas of Goethe, Nietzsche, and Schopenhauer. His older brother was the radical writer Heinrich Mann, and three of his six children, Erika Mann, Klaus Mann and Golo Mann, also became important German writers. When Hitler came to power in 1933, Mann fled to Switzerland. When World War II broke out in 1939, he emigrated to the United States, from where he returned to Switzerland in 1952. Thomas Mann is one of the best-known exponents of the so-called Exilliteratur.
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FINE - Excellent Never Read - Satin Page Marker unmoved from publisher's placementNo writings, stamps, or nameplates from previous ownershipOffering from a pet and smoke-free home No Longer Available from the Publisher
...Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness. - Thomas Mann 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.Thomas Mann was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and Nobel Prize laureate in 1929, known for his series of highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas, noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual. His analysis and critique of the European and German soul used modernized German and Biblical stories, as well as the ideas of Goethe, Nietzsche, and Schopenhauer. His older brother was the radical writer Heinrich Mann, and three of his six children, Erika Mann, Klaus Mann and Golo Mann, also became important German writers. When Hitler came to power in 1933, Mann fled to Switzerland. When World War II broke out in 1939, he emigrated to the United States, from where he returned to Switzerland in 1952. Thomas Mann is one of the best-known exponents of the so-called Exilliteratur.
Exclusive Leather-Bound Collector's EditionGenuine Premium LeatherMoire Silk EndsheetsPermanent Satin Ribbon Page Marker22-karat Gold Gilded Page EdgesArchival 50 lb. Paper to Prevent Tanning Luxurious Spines Hubbed with Raised Ring*** See our other listings for additional Fine Collectable offerings.SHIPPING / HANDLING: All purchases will be shipped with tracking number for confirmation via USPS media mail unless otherwise requested, with special care taken during packing to ensure you receive the books as described. Packaging will be a hard box for care as we do not use shipping bags or envelopes. For multiple purchases, when possible every effort will be made to combine shipping at a discount.
