The Magic Mountain by Mann
A new translation of Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain (1924). The story of Hans Castorp's seven-year stay at a tuberculosis sanatorium in Davos, Switzerland provides a serio-comic portrait of Europe before the First World War.
Simon Pare studied modern languages at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He became a literary translator in 2006. He now lives near Zurich and has translated over 30 works of literature and non-fiction from German and French. His translation of Christoph Ransmayr's The Flying Mountain made the Man Booker International 2018 longlist, and he was runner-up for the 2021 Schlegel-Tieck Prize.
Ritchie Robertson retired in 2021 as Schwarz-Taylor Professor of German at the University of Oxford. He is now an Emeritus Fellow of the Queen's College. His many books include Kafka: Judaism, Politics, and Literature (1985), The Enlightenment: The Pursiuit of Happiness, 1680-1790 (2020) and German Political Tragedy: The Machiavellian Plot and the Necessary Crime (2024), as well as books on Kafka and Goethe in OUP's Very Short Introductions series. Since 2004, he has been a Fellow of the British Academy.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780198889175 |
| ISBN 10 | 0198889178 |
| Title | The Magic Mountain |
| Author | Mann |
| Series | Oxford World's Classics |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | OUP Oxford |
| Year published | 2026-03-12 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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