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“All the characters in Thomas Mann’s masterpiece come considerably
closer to speaking English in John E. Woods’s version . . . Woods
captures perfectly the irony and humor.” –New York Times Book
Review
“[Woods’s translation] succeeds in capturing the beautiful cadence
of [Mann’s] ironically elegant prose.” –Washington Post Book
World
“[The Magic Mountain] is one of those works that changed the shape
and possibilities of European literature. It is a masterwork,
unlike any other. It is also, if we learn to read it on its own
terms, a delight, comic and profound, a new form of language, a new
way of seeing.” –from the new Introduction by A. S. Byatt
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