Thomas Mann

The Magic Mountain

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.

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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.

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Release date

01.01.2023

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Audio Classics

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Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction

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curious

Keywords

sanatorium, Europe, Swiss Alps, intellectual ferment, death