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Hardcovers with dust jackets in Slipcase. 2 Vol. with 1774 pages.First printing of first edition. Slipcase has faint signs of wear and $60.00 price on bottom crossed with red ink (see photos). Vol. 1 has gap in top of block at pp. 276-277 from bookmark. Otherwise book and dj are both clean and unmarked. 'The Man Without Qualities (German: Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften; 1930–1943) is an unfinished modernist novel in three volumes and various drafts, by the Austrian writer Robert Musil.
The novel is a "story of ideas", which takes place in the time of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy's last days, and the plot often veers into allegorical digressions on a wide range of existential themes concerning humanity and feelings. It has a particular concern with the values of truth and opinion and how society organizes ideas about life and society. The book is well over a thousand pages long in its entirety, and no one single theme dominates.
A very nice presentation of a famous literary achievement.
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