The Magic MountainNOBEL 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. |
Contents
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But of Coursea Female | 72 |
Research | 263 |
Danse Macabre | 281 |
Walpurgis Night | 316 |
6 | 339 |
Someone Else | 362 |
The City of God and Evil Deliverance | 380 |
An Outburst of TemperSomething Very Embarrassing | 405 |
An Attack Repulsed | 417 |
Herr Albin | 76 |
4 | 91 |
Excursus on the Sense of Time | 100 |
Politically Suspect | 108 |
Analysis | 122 |
Doubts and Considerations | 128 |
Growing AnxietyTwo Grandfathers and a Twilight Boat Ride | 138 |
The Thermometer | 158 |
5 | 172 |
Eternal Soup and Sudden Clarity | 180 |
My God I See It | 201 |
Freedom | 216 |
Mercurys Moods | 222 |
Encyclopedia | 233 |
Humaniora | 247 |
Operationes Spirituales | 432 |
Snow | 441 |
A Good Soldier | 489 |
7 | 531 |
Mynheer Peeperkorn | 538 |
Vingt et | 546 |
Mynheer Peeperkorn Continued | 564 |
Mynheer Peeperkorn Conclusion | 604 |
The Great Stupor | 616 |
Fullness of Harmony | 626 |
Highly Questionable | 644 |
The Great Petulance | 672 |
The Thunderbolt | 696 |
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