The Magic Mountain (Novelaris): New Translation, Complete eBook Edition

Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain begins with a visit meant to last three weeks — and quietly turns into seven years. Hans Castorp, a young engineer from Hamburg, travels to a Swiss sanatorium to see his ailing cousin and finds himself unable to leave. What follows is a peculiar education. Castorp arrives healthy and is gradually absorbed into the sanatorium's suspended routine — temperature charts, rest cures, endless meals. He falls in love, is drawn into dueling worldviews that argue over what life should mean, and slowly loses his ordinary sense of time. Mann stretches days into chapters and years into scenes, until time itself becomes the novel's true subject. This new translation presents Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain, published in 1924, as a carefully edited eBook — a novel that rewards slow reading with scenes, arguments, and voices that stay with you.

© 2026 Novelaris (E-bog): 9783689315306

Oversættere: Quentin Netherwood

Udgivelsesdato

E-bog: 21. maj 2026