The Magic Mountain (the Best Collection of Thomas Mann)
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Young Hans Castorp is about to become an engineer and start a new stage in his life. At this time, he was entrusted by his family to come to a nursing home in the mountains of Switzerland to visit his cousin who was recuperating here. His plan was to stay here for three weeks and then return to the plains to start a life of his own. However, once entering the "Magic Mountain", the time is unclear. Everyone here has a common obsession with disease, and they form a tight web with the environment, making it difficult for those in it to escape. Here Castorp sees a different world outside the secular world, feeling the other side of body, emotion, thought and death. Time stretched, and three weeks turned into seven years, until the idleness was awakened by war artillery fire...
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