The Magic Mountain by Henry Mann

The Magic Mountain by Henry MannThis European masterpiece from the Nobel prizewinner explores the lure and degeneracy of ideas in an introverted community on the eve of World War I. Hans Castorp is 'a perfectly ordinary, if engaging young man' when he goes to visit his cousin in an exclusive sanatorium in the Swiss Alps. What should have been a three week trip turns into a seven year stay. Hans falls in love and becomes intoxicated with the ideas he hears at the clinic ideas which

Felix and Nathan - after they've left their childhood council estate

and postmodernism along with spellbinding insights into a huge range of authors

social psychology and visceral true stories

has now discovered documents that reproduce Dr

from Icarus flying too close to the sun

says Osho in this inspiring book

It is a relationship destined to explode when secrets are revealed and illusions shattered

Set in an unnamed Latin American country over three generations

and anticipating Turgenev's great later works such as First Love and Fathers and Sons

When a confrontation between a radical environmental group and a Danish cruiser off the Faroe Islands sinks a ship

she is forced to grapple with what it means to be black for the first time

"There is no way to happiness