The Magic Mountain
by Thomas Mann
1,316 pages~22 hrs
“On the mountain, time stands still—and the world below begins to fade away.”
High in the Swiss Alps, a routine three-week visit spirals into a seven-year odyssey through the strange, timeless world of a luxury sanatorium. Hans Castorp finds himself ensnared by brilliant eccentrics and a haunting atmosphere where the line between recovery and decay begins to vanish.
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