SUMMARY: A sanitorium in the Swiss Alps reflects the societal ills of pre-twentieth-century Europe, and a young marine engineer rises from his life of anonymity to become a pivotal character in a story about how a human's environment affects self identity. In this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Man
The Magic Mountain
β Scribed by Mann, Thomas
- Book ID
- 108728515
- Year
- 1924
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 913 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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