Publisher's Synopsis
Thomas Mann gained prominence among the greatest modern authors with this mind-bogglingly dense work of literature, earning him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929. An exclusive tuberculosis sanitarium in the Swiss Alps-a location devoted to illness that serves as a fictional microcosm of pre-First World War Europe-is the setting for The Magic Mountain. His first literary achievement was Death in Venice, a story of forbidden love that has long piqued readers' interest. In the penultimate great book by Thomas Mann, Germany sells its soul to the Devil in a contemporary retelling of the Faust story. It was initially released in 1947.
