Hans Castorp arrives at a Swiss sanatorium for a three-week visit and stays seven years. Mann's monumental novel is a portrait of European civilization on the eve of its collapse—a world of intellectual debate, musical evenings, and bourgeois culture soon to be shattered by the First World War.
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