A Song and Story of Magic Mountain

A Song and Story of Magic Mountain
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Total Pages : 54
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ISBN-10 : 1736501208
ISBN-13 : 9781736501207
Rating : 4/5 (08 Downloads)

Synopsis A Song and Story of Magic Mountain by : Lisa Dancing Light

Magic Mountain is a story about a talking mountain that goes to sleep because people stop coming to hear his stories. When two children come to camp with their parents in the valley of Magic Mountain, they learn about Magic from a wise old owl and decide to journey up the mountain to see if they can awaken him and hear his stories. This story is an adventure into a special way of listening, of waking up and about the beauty of nature in a changing world.

Magic Mountain

Magic Mountain
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Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages : 96
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ISBN-10 : 9781439655948
ISBN-13 : 1439655944
Rating : 4/5 (48 Downloads)

Synopsis Magic Mountain by : Robert McLaughlin

Nestled in the foothills of Golden, Colorado, construction started on Magic Mountain just two years after Disneyland's opening season. Through never-before-seen photographs, Magic Mountain tells the exciting story of the first attempt in America to spread the Disneyland model. The dream of a theme park in Colorado was conceived by Walter F. Cobb and designed by Marco Engineering of Los Angeles. The park saw tens of thousands of visitors, even during the construction period. They witnessed live gunfights and playhouse melodramas and took a ride on the Magic Mountain Railroad. Unfortunately, the park closed at the end of its premier season in 1960, but it would eventually evolve into Heritage Square. For over 40 years, this venue brought fun and entertainment to the young and young at heart, following Cobb's vision of a clean, entertaining, and educational park for the whole family.

Mann's Magic Mountain

Mann's Magic Mountain
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 220
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ISBN-10 : 9780192871794
ISBN-13 : 019287179X
Rating : 4/5 (94 Downloads)

Synopsis Mann's Magic Mountain by : Karolina Watroba

This is the first study of Thomas Mann's landmark German modernist novel Der Zauberberg (The Magic Mountain, 1924) that takes as its starting point the interest in Mann's book shown by non-academic readers. It is also a case study in a cluster of issues central to the interrelated fields of transnational German studies, global modernism studies, comparative literature, and reception theory: it addresses the global circulation of German modernism, popular afterlives of a canonical work, access to cultural participation, relationship between so-called 'high-brow' and 'low-brow' culture, and the limitations of traditional academic reading practices. The study intervenes in these discussions by developing a critical practice termed 'closer reading' and positioning it within the framework of world literature studies. Mann's Magic Mountain centres around nine comparative readings of five novels, three films, and one short story conceived as responses to The Magic Mountain. These works provide access to distinct readings of Mann's text on three levels: they function as records of their authors' reading of Mann, provide insights into broader culturally and historically specific interpretations of the novel, and feature portrayals of fictional readers of The Magic Mountain. These nine case studies are contextualized, complemented, enhanced, and expanded through references to hundreds of other diverse sources that testify to a lively engagement with The Magic Mountain outside of academic scholarship, including journalistic reviews, discussions on internet fora and blogs, personal essays and memoirs, Mann's fan mail and his replies to it, publishing advertisements, and marketing brochures from Davos, where the novel is set.

The Magic Mountain

The Magic Mountain
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Publisher : Vintage
Total Pages : 722
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ISBN-10 : 9780593688137
ISBN-13 : 0593688139
Rating : 4/5 (37 Downloads)

Synopsis The Magic Mountain by : Thomas Mann

NOBEL PRIZE WINNER • A monumental work of erudition and irony, sexual tension and intellectual ferment, The Magic Mountain is an enduring classic. With this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Thomas Mann rose to the front ranks of the great modern novelists, winning the Nobel Prize in 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 War. To this hermetic and otherworldly realm comes Hans Castorp, an “ordinary young man” who arrives for a short visit and ends up staying for seven years, during which he succumbs both to the lure of eros and to the intoxication of ideas.

Original Story by

Original Story by
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Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Total Pages : 452
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ISBN-10 : 1557834679
ISBN-13 : 9781557834676
Rating : 4/5 (79 Downloads)

Synopsis Original Story by by : Arthur Laurents

The director, screenwriter, and playwright provides a look into his world, introducing the wide array of stars he has met over the years and revealing the hardship and joy that comes with a life in show business.

CliffsNotes on Mann's The Magic Mountain

CliffsNotes on Mann's The Magic Mountain
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Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages : 56
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ISBN-10 : 9780544182660
ISBN-13 : 0544182669
Rating : 4/5 (60 Downloads)

Synopsis CliffsNotes on Mann's The Magic Mountain by : Herberth Czermak

This CliffsNotes guide includes everything you’ve come to expect from the trusted experts at CliffsNotes, including analysis of the most widely read literary works.

Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain

Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain
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Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages : 370
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ISBN-10 : 9781443834032
ISBN-13 : 1443834033
Rating : 4/5 (32 Downloads)

Synopsis Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain by : Rodney Symington

Thomas Mann’s novel The Magic Mountain presents a panorama of European society in the first two decades of the 20th century and depicts the philosophical and metaphysical dilemmas facing people in the modern age. In the years leading up to the First World War, the fundamental elements of human nature were thrown into sharp relief by the political tensions that resulted in the ultimate metaphor for the innate destructiveness of humankind: the War itself. If such a war is the true expression of human tendencies, what hope is there for the future? Through the figure of the main character of the novel, Thomas Mann explores the alternative philosophies of life available to human beings in the modern age, and invites the reader to undertake a personal odyssey of discovery, with a view to adopting a positive approach in an era that seems to offer no clear-cut answers. This book is a comprehensive commentary on Thomas Mann’s seminal novel, one of the key literary artefacts of the 20th century. The author has taken upon himself the task of explaining all the references and allusions contained in the novel, and of providing readers who know little or no German with enough explanatory comment to enable them to understand the novel and extract the maximum reading pleasure from it.

Dreamers

Dreamers
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Publisher : Pushkin Press
Total Pages : 257
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ISBN-10 : 9781782275060
ISBN-13 : 1782275061
Rating : 4/5 (60 Downloads)

Synopsis Dreamers by : Volker Weidermann

History that reads like a novel: the story of the writers and intellectuals behind the failed Bavarian Revolution of 1918, by the author of the acclaimed Summer Before the Dark At the end of the First World War in Germany, the journalist and theatre critic Kurt Eisner organised a revolution which overthrew the monarchy, and declared a Free State of Bavaria. In February 1919, he was assassinated, and the revolution failed. But while the dream lived, it was the writers, the poets, the playwrights and the intellectuals who led the way. As well as Eisner, Thomas Mann, Rainer Maria Rilke, and many other prominent figures in German cultural history were involved. In his characteristically lucid, sharp prose, Volker Weidermann presents us with a slice of history - November 1918 to April 1919 - and shows how a small group of people could have altered the course of the twentieth century.

More Treasure Stories and Folklore of the Caballo Mountains

More Treasure Stories and Folklore of the Caballo Mountains
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Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages : 118
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ISBN-10 : 9781465348661
ISBN-13 : 1465348662
Rating : 4/5 (61 Downloads)

Synopsis More Treasure Stories and Folklore of the Caballo Mountains by : William H. White

T his is the forth book by William White and deals with treasure hunting lore and the a ctual treasure hunters who still walk the upper reaches of the fabled Caballo Mountains. This will be the last book dedicated exclusively to this Mountain Range. There will be other stories no doubt, but not enough to fill a complete volume with. William is a treasure hunter first, and a writer second, and because of this, most of his stories come from actual treasure hunting experiences. This book was designed to finish off most of the untold stories that abound here. It would be pure conceit to assert that all the treasure stories about the Caballo Mountains are now committed to print. This is simply not true and William would agree that these tales represent only those stories that he is aware of. His style of writing is both entertaining and informative in such a manner that one could easily relate to his experiences. This is another book that will be difficult to put down once one has started reading it. William is humbled by the fact that so many people enjoy reading his books and says that it fuels the fires of creative energy that causes him to continue his work. The reader will find this an honest book with no punches pulled for the sake of someone’s feelings. It is uniquely William White and I can almost hear him telling the stories as I read them in print.

Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain

Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain
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Total Pages : 292
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015073677240
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Rating : 4/5 (40 Downloads)

Synopsis Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain by : Hans Rudolf Vaget

This collection seeks to illustrate the ways in which Thomas Mann's 1924 novel, The Magic Mountain, has been newly construed by some of today's most astute readers in the field of Mann studies. The essays, many of which were written expressly for this volume, comment on some of the familiar and inescapable topics of Magic Mountain scholarship, including the questions of genre and ideology, the philosophy of time, and the ominous subjects of disease and medical practice. Moreover, this volume offers fresh approaches to the novel's underlying notions of masculinity, to its embodiment of the cultural code of anti-Semitism, and to its precarious relationship to the rival media of photography, cinema, and recorded sound.