A few words about the Great Narratives series. The Great Narratives series includes milestone works of world prose; works by authors who have broken the barrier of time and are worth reading by everyone as part of an exciting contemporary relevance that concerns us all.
The Magic Mountain is a masterpiece of European literature by a Nobel Prize-winning author who explores the allure and degeneration of ideas in an introspective community on the eve of the Great War. The plot is seemingly simple. Young engineer Hans Castorp from Hamburg visits the Sanatorium Berghof in Switzerland to see his cousin. A slight indisposition and a prolonged fever lead the doctor of the sanatorium, court counselor Behrens, to suggest that he extend his stay. Eventually, Hans Castorp decides to remain in the sanatorium for three weeks. Only, those three weeks, without him realizing it, turn into seven years, as Hans falls in love and gets intoxicated by the ideas he hears being discussed there.
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Famous for his irony, Thomas Mann, along with Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and Freud, offers the unifying substance, the love for art and imagination, that the modern world needs to avoid disintegration after the collapse of social forces and religions. Independent
It is suitable for multiple readings. A novel for a lifetime and not just for a rainy afternoon. Guardian
The most important novelist of the 20th century. Spectator
