Thomas Mann; H. T. Lowe-Porter — The Magic Mountain

Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1982. Leather. A fine special edition of this important German novel by Thomas Mann, an illustrated edition. A special edition for the subscribers to 'The Oxford Library of World's Great Books&apos.'The Magic Mountain', first published in Germany in 1924, is considered to be one of the greatest works of twentieth century German literature. The novel begins in the decade of the 1900s, following Hans Castorp, the only child of a Hamburg merchant family, who is brought up by his grandfather and uncle. Illustrated with a double-paged frontispiece, and seven plates.By Thomas Mann, who one the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929.Ribbon marker is present.Translated into English by H. T. Lowe-Porter.Illustrated by Gonzalo Fonseca. In the original publisher's quarter calf binding with cloth to the boards. Externally, fine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Fine . Ill.: Gonzalo Fonseca. Fine .