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The Magic Mountain

Also Known As Der Zauberberg

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Literature Atlas. "The Magic Mountain." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://literature.interactiveatlas.org/works/the-magic-mountain.

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Literature Atlas. (n.d.). The Magic Mountain. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://literature.interactiveatlas.org/works/the-magic-mountain

BibTeX

@misc{literatureatlas-the-magic-mountain,
  author = {Literature Atlas},
  title = {The Magic Mountain},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://literature.interactiveatlas.org/works/the-magic-mountain},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

The Magic Mountain is a German novel written by Thomas Mann, published in November 1924, about a young and aspiring engineer, Hans Castorp, who while staying in the secluded world of a high-altitude sanatorium in the years leading up to 1914 encounters otherworldly figures who confront him with politics, philosophy, romance, illness and death, and who stays considerably longer than originally planned after falling in love with a woman he meets there. The novel was inspired by the conditions at a sanatorium in Davos that Mann had visited in 1912 while caring for his wife, who was suffering from tuberculosis, and it was republished in several editions and translated into numerous languages.

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Composed, From (Year)

from 1924 1

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