6611X2 Alfred Knopf, New York: 1939. 900 pages. Hardcover, no dustjacket. Fair reading copy. Previous owner's name on inside cover. Underlining on some pages. Webbing exposed in the front. A vast intellectual drama of the forces that play upon modern man. Its theater is a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps - a community organized with exclusive reference to ill health. In this symbol Thomas Mann bodies forth the diseased society of Europe before 1914 - the coplete world that made conflict possible. Also included is an article by Thomas Mann entitled "The Making of The Magic Mountain." Translated into English from the German by H. T. Lowe-Porter. $12.00USD
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