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The Magic Mountain (Everyman's Library) by Thomas Mann, John E. Woods, A. S. Byatt is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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It wasThe Magic Mountain(Der Zauberberg) that confirmed Thomas Mann as a Nobel prizewinner for literature and rightly so, for it is undoubtedly one of the great novels of the 20th century. Its unusual story - it opens with a young man visiting a friend in a tuberculosis sanatorium in the Swiss Alps - was originally started by Mann in 1912 but was not completed until 1924. Then, it was instantly recognised as a masterpiece and led to Mann’s Nobel Prize in 1929. Hans Castorp is, on the face of it, an ordinary man in his early 20s, on course to start a career in ship engineering in his home town of Hamburg, when he decides to travel to the Berghof Santatorium in Davos. The year is 1912, and an oblivious world is on the brink of war. Castorp’s friend Joachim Ziemssen is taking the cure, and a three-week visit seems a perfect break before work begins. But when Castorp arrives he is surprised to find an established community of patients, some of whom have been there for years, and little by little, he gets drawn into the closeted life and the individual personalities of the residents. Among them are Hofrat Behrens, the principal doctor, the curiously attractive Clavdia Chauchat and two

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Author
Thomas Mann, John E. Woods, A. S. Byatt
Publisher
Everyman's Library
Published
2005
Language
EN
ISBN
9780679441830
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Literary Fiction, Fiction, World Fiction
Rating
4.14 / 5 (284 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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