A retelling of Thomas Mann · 1924

The Magic Mountain

“A young engineer from Hamburg goes up to a tuberculosis sanatorium in the Swiss Alps to visit his cousin for three weeks — and stays seven years, among the sick and the dying, the talkers and the lovers, until the First World War calls him down.”

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Contents7 episodes · ~22 min

  1. 1Arrival (Foreword and Chapter One)Free
  2. 2Origins (Chapter Two)🔒
  3. 3The First Days (Chapter Three)🔒
  4. 4The Moist Spot (Chapter Four)🔒
  5. 5Research and Walpurgis Night (Chapter Five)🔒
  6. 6Changes; Snow (Chapter Six)🔒
  7. 7Mynheer Peeperkorn; The Great Stupor; The Thunderbolt (Chapter Seven)🔒