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Thomas Mann's The magic mountain : a reader's guide / by Rodney Symington.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Symington, Rodney.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955. Zauberberg.
- Mann, Thomas.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (363 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Thomas Mann's novel The Magic Mountain presents a panorama of European society in the first two decades of the 20th century and depicts the philosophical and metaphysical dilemmas facing people in the modern age. In the years leading up to the First World War the fundamental elements of human nature were thrown into sharp relief by the political tensions that resulted in the ultimate metaphor for the innate destructiveness of humankind: the War itself. If such a war is the true expression of ...
- Contents:
- CONTENTS; Introduction; Commentary; Select Bibliography
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-36988-5
- 1-4438-3403-3
- 9786613369888
- OCLC:
- 821178897
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