The Magic Mountain (Novelaris)

New Translation, Complete eBook Edition

Thomas Mann, Quentin Netherwood

• Publisher: Novelaris
• Year: 2026
• eBook ISBN:
  9783689315306
• Subtopic: Classics

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.

Table of contents

• INTRODUCTION
• CHAPTER ONE
• Arrival
• No. 34
• In the restaurant
• CHAPTER TWO
• Of the baptismal font and of the grandfather in two guises
• To Tienappels. And to Hans Castorp's moral well-being
• CHAPTER THREE
• Honourable Eclipse
• Breakfast
• Teasing. Viaticum. Interrupted cheerfulness
• Satana
• Sharpness of mind
• One word too many
• Of course, a woman!
• Mr Albin
• Satana makes defamatory suggestions
• CHAPTER FOUR
• Necessary purchase
• Digression on the sense of time
• He tries his hand at French conversation
• Politically suspicious!
• Hippe
• Analysis
• Doubts and considerations
• Table talk
• Rising anxiety. Of the two grandfathers and the boat trip in the twilight
• The thermometer
• CHAPTER FIVE
• Eternity soup and sudden clarity
• "My God, I see!"
• Freedom
• The whims of Mercury
• Encyclopaedia
• Humanities
• Research
• Dance of Death
• Walpurgis Night
• CHAPTER SIX
• Changes
• Someone else
• On the theocracy and evil redemption
• Irritability. And something else quite embarrassing
• Rejected attack
• Spiritual operations
• Snow
• As a soldier and a good boy
• CHAPTER SEVEN
• Walk on the beach
• Mynheer Peeperkorn
• Vingt et un
• Mynheer Peeperkorn (Continued)
• Mynheer Peeperkorn (end)
• The great dullness
• The fullness of euphony
• Most questionable
• The great irritation
• The thunderclap