# The Magic Mountain

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- Authors: [Thomas Mann](https://www.bookquiver.com/thomas-mann)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2005-04-29

## Description

It is summertime in the Swiss Alps. Hans Castorp, an ‘ordinary young man’, has arrived at an exclusive sanitorium for a brief visit to his convalescent cousin. Once there, time will lose its familiar contours, as Hans himself falls ill and loses himself in a landscape of dreams, beauty and eternal snow. The Magic Mountain is Thomas Mann’s masterwork: a Bildungsroman that is also an allegory of Europe before the devastations of the First World War and a profound meditation on time, art, sickness and death. John E. Woods’ virtuoso translations of Thomas Mann’s novels are widely recognized as the best versions available in English.

## Editions

### The Magic Mountain

- Publisher: Penguin
- Translated by: John E. Woods
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-18-3731-089-0
- Published: 2027-02-11
- Language: en_GB

### The Magic Mountain

- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-02-4178-542-3
- Pages: 752
- Published: 2026-09-10
- Language: en_GB

### The Magic Mountain

- Publisher: everyman_s_library
- ISBN: 978-14-0004-421-4
- Pages: 904
- Published: 2005-06-21
- Language: en_US

### The Magic Mountain

- Publisher: Everyman
- ISBN: 978-18-5715-289-0
- Pages: 904
- Published: 2005-04-29
- Language: en_GB