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With this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Thomas Mann rose to the
front ranks of the great modern novelists, winning the Nobel Prize
for Literature in 1929. The Magic Mountain takes place in an
exclusive tuberculosis sanatorium in the Swiss Alps-a community
devoted to sickness that serves as a fictional microcosm for Europe
in the days before the First World War. To this hermetic and
otherworldly realm comes Hans Castorp, an "ordinary young man" who
arrives for a short visit and ends up staying for seven years,
during which he succumbs both to the lure of eros and to the
intoxication of ideas.
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