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The Magic Mountain

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39 hours 30 min

"It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death."Thomas Mann's acclaimed novel, The Magic Mountain, is a dizzyingly rich novel of ideas in which a Swiss sanatorium becomes a microcosm of pre-First World War Europe, playing with the elasticity of time, engaging in philosophical dialogue and ideological discourse, and blending personal growth with historical tragedy.Hans Castorp, a young German ... Read more

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"It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death."Thomas Mann's acclaimed novel, The Magic Mountain, is a dizzyingly rich novel of ideas in which a Swiss sanatorium becomes a microcosm of pre-First World War Europe, playing with the elasticity of time, engaging in philosophical dialogue and ideological discourse, and blending personal growth with historical tragedy.Hans Castorp, a young German
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Joseph the Provider

by Thomas Mann ...

Translated by H. T. Lowe-Porter ...

Thomas Mann regarded his monumental retelling of the biblical story of Joseph as his magnum opus. The four parts--The Stories of Jacob, Young Joseph, Joseph in Egypt, and Joseph the Provider--are a novel telling of Joseph's fall into slavery and his rise to be lord over Egypt. ... Read more

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Thomas Mann regarded his monumental retelling of the biblical story of Joseph as his magnum opus. The four parts--The Stories of Jacob, Young Joseph, Joseph in Egypt, and Joseph the Provider--are a novel telling of Joseph's fall into slavery and his rise to be lord over Egypt.
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Joseph in Egypt

by Thomas Mann ...

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Thomas Mann regarded his monumental re-telling of the biblical story of Joseph as his magnum opus, telling of Joseph's fall into slavery and his rise to be lord over Egypt. As Joseph is saved from the well and sold to Egypt, he adopts a new name, Osarseph, replacing the Jo- element with a reference to Osiris to indicate that he is now in the underworld. This change of name to account for changing ... Read more

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Thomas Mann regarded his monumental re-telling of the biblical story of Joseph as his magnum opus, telling of Joseph's fall into slavery and his rise to be lord over Egypt. As Joseph is saved from the well and sold to Egypt, he adopts a new name, Osarseph, replacing the Jo- element with a reference to Osiris to indicate that he is now in the underworld. This change of name to account for changing
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Death in Venice and Seven Other Stories

by Thomas Mann ...

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This volumes includes eight stories by Thomas Mann:Death in VeniceTonio KrögerMario and the MagicianDisorder and Early SorrowA Man and his DogThe Blood of the WalsungsTristanFelix Krull ... Read more

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This volumes includes eight stories by Thomas Mann:Death in VeniceTonio KrögerMario and the MagicianDisorder and Early SorrowA Man and his DogThe Blood of the WalsungsTristanFelix Krull
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Magic Mountain

by Thomas Mann ...

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The Magic Mountain contains many contrasts and parallels with the earlier novel. Gustav von Aschenbach, an established author, is matched to a young, callow engineer at the start of a regular career. The erotic allure of the beautiful Polish boy Tadzio corresponds to the Asiatic-flabby ("asiatisch-schlaff") Russian Madame Chauchat. The setting was shifted both geographically and symbolically. The ... Read more

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The Magic Mountain contains many contrasts and parallels with the earlier novel. Gustav von Aschenbach, an established author, is matched to a young, callow engineer at the start of a regular career. The erotic allure of the beautiful Polish boy Tadzio corresponds to the Asiatic-flabby ("asiatisch-schlaff") Russian Madame Chauchat. The setting was shifted both geographically and symbolically. The
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Three essays

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Three Essays gathers Thomas Mann's incisive reflections on culture, art, and the spiritual crises of modern Europe, presenting prose that is at once elegant, ironic, and intellectually exacting. Characteristic of Mann's essayistic style, these pieces move fluidly between literary criticism, philosophical meditation, and cultural diagnosis. Written in the context of the profound upheavals of early ... Read more

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Three Essays gathers Thomas Mann's incisive reflections on culture, art, and the spiritual crises of modern Europe, presenting prose that is at once elegant, ironic, and intellectually exacting. Characteristic of Mann's essayistic style, these pieces move fluidly between literary criticism, philosophical meditation, and cultural diagnosis. Written in the context of the profound upheavals of early
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The Magic Mountain

by Thomas Mann ...

Translated by H.T. Lowe-Porter ...

In this masterpiece of intellectual fiction, Nobel Prize-winning author Thomas Mann takes you to a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps-a community devoted to sickness that becomes a microcosm for Europe's prewar society.Young Hans Castorp planned a three-week visit to his tubercular cousin, only to find himself mysteriously drawn to the isolated mountain retreat. As his stay stretches from months to ... Read more

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In this masterpiece of intellectual fiction, Nobel Prize-winning author Thomas Mann takes you to a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps-a community devoted to sickness that becomes a microcosm for Europe's prewar society.Young Hans Castorp planned a three-week visit to his tubercular cousin, only to find himself mysteriously drawn to the isolated mountain retreat. As his stay stretches from months to
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Death in Venice (Annotated)

Enriched Edition. A Psychological Novella of Artistic Obsession, Forbidden Desire, Classical Beauty, and Decay in Cholera-Stricken Venice

by Thomas Mann, June Umberley ...

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Death in Venice is a tightly wrought novella of artistic obsession, erotic longing, and moral dissolution, set against the luminous yet pestilential atmosphere of early twentieth-century Venice. Thomas Mann's prose combines classical restraint with psychological intensity, tracing the celebrated writer Gustav von Aschenbach's descent from disciplined aesthetic idealism into feverish infatuation ... Read more

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Death in Venice is a tightly wrought novella of artistic obsession, erotic longing, and moral dissolution, set against the luminous yet pestilential atmosphere of early twentieth-century Venice. Thomas Mann's prose combines classical restraint with psychological intensity, tracing the celebrated writer Gustav von Aschenbach's descent from disciplined aesthetic idealism into feverish infatuation
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Rome and Persia

The Seven Hundred Year Rivalry

by Adrian Goldsworthy ...

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**The extraordinary history of the epic rivalry between the ancient world’s two great superpowers.“Magnificent.” —Spectator**The Roman Empire was like no other. Stretching from the north of Britain to the Sahara, and from the Atlantic coast to the Euphrates, it imposed peace and prosperity on an unprecedented scale. Its only true rival lay in the east, where the Parthian and then Persian empires ... Read more

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**The extraordinary history of the epic rivalry between the ancient world’s two great superpowers.“Magnificent.” —Spectator**The Roman Empire was like no other. Stretching from the north of Britain to the Sahara, and from the Atlantic coast to the Euphrates, it imposed peace and prosperity on an unprecedented scale. Its only true rival lay in the east, where the Parthian and then Persian empires
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The Last Witnesses

by M. G. Sheftall ...

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**One of Washington Post's 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction From 2024The first volume in a two-book series about each of the atomic bomb drops that ended the Pacific War based on years of irreplicable personal interviews with survivors to tell a story of devastation and resilience**In this vividly rendered historical narrative, M. G. Sheftall layers the stories of hibakusha—the Japanese word for ... Read more

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**One of Washington Post's 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction From 2024The first volume in a two-book series about each of the atomic bomb drops that ended the Pacific War based on years of irreplicable personal interviews with survivors to tell a story of devastation and resilience**In this vividly rendered historical narrative, M. G. Sheftall layers the stories of hibakusha—the Japanese word for
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The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story

Narrated by John Freeman, Erin Bennett, Scott Brick, Cassandra Campbell, Frankie Corzo, Ramón de Ocampo, Mark Feuerstein, Kim Mai Guest, Deepti Gupta, Dominic Hoffman0, Lisa Renee Pitts1, George Saunders2 ...

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17 hours 11 min

A selection of the best and most representative contemporary American short fiction from 1970 to 2020, including such authors as Ursula K. LeGuin, Toni Cade Bambara, Jhumpa Lahiri, Sandra Cisneros, and Ted Chiang, hand-selected by celebrated editor and anthologist John Freeman.IN THE PAST fifty years, the American short story has changed dramatically. New voices, forms, and mixtures of genres have ... Read more

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A selection of the best and most representative contemporary American short fiction from 1970 to 2020, including such authors as Ursula K. LeGuin, Toni Cade Bambara, Jhumpa Lahiri, Sandra Cisneros, and Ted Chiang, hand-selected by celebrated editor and anthologist John Freeman.IN THE PAST fifty years, the American short story has changed dramatically. New voices, forms, and mixtures of genres have
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Little

A Novel

by Edward Carey ...

Narrated by Jayne Entwistle ...

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14 hours 14 min

**LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARDLONGLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTIONLONGLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE"An amazing achievement. . . A compulsively readable novel, so canny and weird and surfeited with the reality of human capacity and ingenuity that I am stymied for comparison. Dickens and David Lynch? Defoe ... Read more

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**LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARDLONGLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTIONLONGLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE"An amazing achievement. . . A compulsively readable novel, so canny and weird and surfeited with the reality of human capacity and ingenuity that I am stymied for comparison. Dickens and David Lynch? Defoe
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