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VINTAGE CLASSICS THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN - THOMAS ...

Thomas Mann was born in 1875 in Lubeck  of a line of prosperous and influential merchants. Mann
was educated under the discipline of North German schoolmasters before working for an insurance
office aged nineteen. During this time he secretly wrote his first tale  Fallen  and shortly
afterwards he left the insurance office to study art and literature at the University of
Munich. After a year in Rome he devoted himself exclusively to writing. He was only twenty-five
when Buddenbrooks  his first major novel  was published. Before it was banned and burned by
Hitler  it had sold over a million copies in Germany alone. His second great novel  The Magic
Mountain  was published in 1924 and the first volume of his tetralogy Joseph and his Brothers
in 1933. In 1929 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. In 1933 Thomas Mann left
Germany to live in Switzerland. Then  after several previous visits  in 1938 he settled in the
United States where he wrote Doctor Faustus and The Holy Sinner. Among the honours he recieved
in the USA was his appointment as a Fellow of the Library of Congress. He revisited his native
country in 1949 and returned to Switzerland in 1952  where The Black Swan and Confessions of
Felix Krull were written and where he died in 1955.

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