Magic Mountain

The Magic Mountain is simply one of the greatest novels ever written.-The GuardianFirst published in 1924, 'The Magic Mountain's widely considered to be one of the most influential works of twentieth-century German literature, written by Thomas Mann, a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate.It recounts the story of Hans Castorp, a young orphan who, while visiting his cousin in a sanatorium where she is being treated for tuberculosis, contracts the illness himself and ends up staying for treatment. The secluded sanatorium becomes his entire world while serving as a reflection of pre-war Europe. Written prior to World War I, and heavily revised afterward, it is a complex and dense novel that effortlessly combines realism and symbolism, and it has mesmerized critics and scholars since its publication.