โ Scribed by Thomas Mann
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All the characters in Thomas Manns masterpiece come considerably closer to speaking English in John E. Woodss version . . . Woods captures perfectly the irony and humor. _New York Times Book Review _
[Woodss translation] succeeds in capturing the beautiful cadence of [Manns] ironically elegant prose. _Washington Post Book World _
[_The Magic Mountain_] is one of those works that changed the shape and possibilities of European literature. It is a masterwork, unlike any other. It is also, if we learn to read it on its own terms, a delight, comic and profound, a new form of language, a new way of seeing. from the new Introduction by A. S. Byatt
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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. The Magic Mountain takes place in an exclusive tuberculosis sanatorium in the Swiss Alpsa community devoted to sickness that serves as a fictional microcosm for Europe in the days before the First World War. 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.
Acclaimed translator John E. Woods has given us the definitive English version of Manns masterpiece. A monumental work of erudition and irony, sexual tension and intellectual ferment, The Magic Mountain is an enduring classic.
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### Review All the characters in Thomas Manns masterpiece come considerably closer to speaking English in John E. Woodss version . . . Woods captures perfectly the irony and humor. \_New York Times Book Review \_ [Woodss translation] succeeds in capturing the beautiful cadence of [Manns] ironicall