{"product_id":"2026100009951-secondhand-the-magic-mountain","title":"The Magic Mountain","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Very good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket - cloth\/board in good condition\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet against the rarefied air of a Swiss Alpine sanatorium in the years preceding the First World War, The Magic Mountain draws young Hans Castorp into a world suspended between life and death, where a planned three-week visit stretches into seven transformative years. Thomas Mann's monumental 1924 novel — translated here with masterful fidelity by H. T. Lowe-Porter — chronicles Castorp's intellectual and spiritual awakening as he encounters a cast of vivid, ideologically charged characters: humanists, Jesuits, and nihilists all locked in a battle for the soul of a naïve young German engineer.\n\nWidely regarded as one of the towering achievements of 20th-century European literature, The Magic Mountain is a novel of ideas in the grandest tradition, weaving themes of time, disease, political decay, and the decline of Western civilization into a narrative of breathtaking scope and ambition. Mann's prose — richly ironic, deeply philosophical, and suffused with a melancholic beauty — transforms a mountain retreat into a microcosm of a civilization on the brink of catastrophe. This illustrated Franklin Library edition, with artwork by Gonzalo Fonseca, presents one of literature's great masterworks in a form as enduring as the novel itself; once Castorp ascends that mountain, the reader may find it equally impossible to leave.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49161017327835,"sku":"2026100009951-SECONDHAND","price":40.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/a82a5a22-7f1c-4b07-96d6-73d0a51f2e4a.png?v=1787189124","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100009951-secondhand-the-magic-mountain","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}