Germany

The Magic Mountain

by Thomas Mann

Summary

Young Hans Castorp visits his cousin at a Swiss tuberculosis sanatorium for three weeks and stays for seven years, engaging in intellectual and philosophical debates with other patients as Europe drifts toward war. Mann's most ambitious novel.

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Thomas Mann

German novelist and essayist (1875–1955) and Nobel laureate who explored the tension between the bourgeois world and the life of the artist. He fled Nazi Germany in 1933 and eventually settled in the United States.

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Published
1924
Author
Thomas Mann