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1927. Volume 1 of 2. Mann, German essayist, cultural critic, and novelist, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1929. His novels are known to explore the relationship between the exceptional individual and his or her environment, the environment of family, or of the world in general. Among Mann's most famous works are Buddenbrooks and The Magic Mountain. In the Magic Mountain, Hans Castorp arrives at a sanitarium high in the Swiss Alps to find himself surrounded by exponents of widely differing political and philosophical attitudes. Amid sickness and decay he is forced to explore both the meaning of love and death and the relationship of one to the other. As he does so, the pattern that emerges from his discussions with his companions, and from his own musings, becomes a symbol of the forces below - forces that would culminate in the First World War and the destruction of pre-1914 civilization. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. Other volumes in this set are ISBN(s): 1419179837.