The Magic Mountain

Thomas Mann

Enter the world of a Swiss sanatorium and witness the intellectual ferment of pre-World War I Europe in Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain.

Unabridged

1 day 14 hours 51 minutes

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In this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Mann uses a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps, a community devoted exclusively to sickness, as a microcosm for Europe, which in the years before 1914 was already exhibiting the first symptoms of its own terminal irrationality.

The Magic Mountain is a monumental work of erudition and irony, sexual tension and intellectual ferment, a book that pulses with life in the midst of death.