{"product_id":"the-magic-mountain","title":"The Magic Mountain","description":"\u003cp\u003e'Hans Castorp filled his lungs with the pure mountain air--this fresh, light atmosphere that was so easy to inhale and held no scent of moisture, no content, no memories...'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThomas Mann's The Magic Mountain (1924) is a social comedy with tragic overtones, providing a portrait of Europe in the first decades of the twentieth century. The novel recounts how an apparently simple North German engineer, Hans Castorp, comes to a tuberculosis sanatorium in Davos, Switzerland, intending to visit his sick cousin, and ends up staying for seven years. He matures intellectually and emotionally, encountering love and death amid a cast of vivid characters who are portrayed with Dickensian humour and sophisticated irony, until he is jerked out of his torpor by the outbreak of the First World War.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis translation is accompanied by an accessible introduction by Ritchie Robertson, and detailed notes explaining the many cultural and historical references in the text.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Thomas Mann","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59701127479641,"sku":"9780198889175","price":17.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1069\/9056\/7769\/files\/9780198889175.jpg?v=1791121884","url":"https:\/\/thetwotrickpony.ch\/products\/the-magic-mountain","provider":"The Two Trick Pony","version":"1.0","type":"link"}