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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...

"The Magic Mountain" is the masterpiece of Nobel Prize winner Thomas Mann. The novel is centered on a sanatorium and describes many feudal nobles and bourgeois figures in Europe, including Prussian officers, Russian ladies, Dutch colonists, Catholics... They are all parasites of society. The entire sanatorium is filled with a morbid and dying atmosphere, symbolizing the decline of capitalist civilization. The work reveals the kinship between decadence and fascism through the ideological conflicts between the characters.

"Your Majesty" is Thomas Mann's second novel. The plot of the novel is very simple, even seemingly popular: the protagonist Klaus Heinrich is the prince of a small principality in Germany at the turn of the last century. Because his brother, Archduke Albrecht II, is weak and has no interest in governing, he is appointed as the ruling prince and can use the title "Your Majesty". The simple and kind-hearted Klaus Heinrich liked this duty, that is, attending various events on behalf of the Archduke, but sometimes he felt vaguely lonely and empty, until he met and fell in love with Irma Spolman, the daughter of an American millionaire. In the process of pursuing Imma and being constantly rejected by her, Klaus Heinrich realizes his true nature: a hollow man who does not understand real life and feelings, lives in a fictional "world of appearances", and whose responsibilities and work have no real meaning. So he began to change himself, learned to understand the feelings of others, and began to study economics, hoping to do something practical for the country. His change also made Imma change her attitude towards him. At the end of the story, the two become engaged, and Imma's father agrees to provide money to solve the financial crisis of the small principality. In his later years, Thomas Mann called "Your Majesty" the turning point in his transition to democratic thought. Although true democracy in the modern sense has not yet appeared in this novel, it still explores the significance of the monarch in a modern country. The monarch represents and guides the people, and the people in turn influence and help the monarch make decisions. This romantic political view can be said to be the prototype of democracy.

This book is the most heart-wrenching and shocking masterpiece of the great German writer Thomas Mann in his later years. The protagonist of the novel is the fictional composer Adrian Leverkuhn, a young man with musical talent and a bright future. However, he is not satisfied with the status quo and pursues "truly great success", so he made a deal with the devil in exchange for 24 years of musical inspiration and creativity; during this period, his soul was owned by the devil, and he was not allowed to love. However, just as his art was rising, the environment around him Crisis of moral degradation continued to appear, and he himself began to violate the prohibition against loving others; people began to die around him, his acquaintances committed suicide, and his gay boyfriend was shot dead by a married woman... Adrian was so distraught that he suddenly woke up and wanted to repent of his life. In the end, he collapsed physically and mentally, and was taken back to his hometown by his mother. After ten years of madness, he died in 1940.