{"product_id":"9781400044214","title":"The Magic Mountain","description":"\u003cp\u003eWith this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Thomas Mann rose to the front ranks of the great modern novelists, winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929. \u003ci\u003eThe Magic Mountain\u003c\/i\u003e takes place in an exclusive tuberculosis sanatorium in the Swiss Alps–a community devoted to sickness that serves as a fictional microcosm for Europe in the days before the First World War. To this hermetic and otherworldly realm comes Hans Castorp, an “ordinary young man” who arrives for a short visit and ends up staying for seven years, during which he succumbs both to the lure of eros and to the intoxication of ideas.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcclaimed translator John E. Woods has given us the definitive English version of Mann’s masterpiece. A monumental work of erudition and irony, sexual tension and intellectual ferment, \u003ci\u003eThe Magic Mountain\u003c\/i\u003e is an enduring classic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47049109111024,"sku":"9781400044214","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781400044214_p0.jpg?v=1763711614","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781400044214","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}