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Thomas Mann

Paul Thomas Mann (German: [pa??l to?mas man] 6 June 1875 – 12 August 1955) was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. His highly symbolic and ironic epic novels andnovellas are noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual. His analysis and critique of the European and German soul used modernized German and Biblical stories, as well as the ideas of Goethe, Nietzsche and Schopenhauer.

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The Magic Mountain

Thomas Mann - Publisher : Vintage Books

The narrative opens in the decade before World War I. The the central character, Hans Castorp, in his twenties, the only child of a Hamburg merchant family who, following the early death of his parents, has been brought up by his grandfather and subsequently by an uncle named James Tienappel. Just before beginning this professional career Castorp undertakes a journey to visit his tubercular...
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During a travel	Autumn	To my parents	Not easy to read	Great classic	Less than 10$
At least one month

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