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Publisher
Koch Vision
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (324 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
A young engineer goes to visit his cousin at a tubercular sanatorium in the Swiss Alps intending to stay three weeks, but ends by staying on for seven years to observe the disturbed personnel and patients. The unfolding exchanges between the protagonists are meant to present a microcosm of the society of pre-World War I Europe in this dramatization based on a Nobel Prize-winning novel.
Publisher
Kinowelt Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 146 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
A young engineer visiting his cousin at a tuburcular sanitorium in the Swiss Alps ends by staying on for seven years. The theme is his education among patients there, who are a microcosm of the society of pre-World War I Europe.
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 289
Language
English
Description
"The Magic Mountain is simply one of the greatest novels ever written." - The Guardian
With this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Thomas Mann rose to the front ranks of the great modern novelists, winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1929. The Magic Mountain 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...
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