# The Magic Mountain

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- Book: [The Magic Mountain](https://www.bookquiver.com/thomas-mann/the-magic-mountain) ([The Magic Mountain.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/thomas-mann/the-magic-mountain.md))
- Authors: [Thomas Mann](https://www.bookquiver.com/thomas-mann)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-02-4178-542-3
- Pages: 752
- Published: 2026-09-10
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## 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.