{"product_id":"9780679772873","title":"The Magic Mountain","description":"\u003cb\u003eNOBEL PRIZE WINNER • A monumental work of erudition and irony, sexual tension and intellectual ferment, \u003ci\u003eThe Magic Mountain\u003c\/i\u003e is an enduring classic.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo 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.","brand":"Thomas Mann","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":45892925161684,"sku":"9780679772873","price":29.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/9208\/files\/BNCImageAPI_86cb521c-112c-41c3-8624-9e057c3b45f2.jpg?v=1732380695","url":"https:\/\/penguinshop.ca\/products\/9780679772873","provider":"Penguin Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}