Read The Magic Mountain in full
The complete text of The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann on booknest — 8 chapters, free to read, with notes and narration.
Hans Castorp, a thoroughly ordinary young engineer, travels up to the Berghof tuberculosis sanatorium in the Swiss Alps to visit his cousin for three weeks. Then the doctors find a moist spot on his lung, and three weeks stretch into seven years. On a mountain where the thermometer replaces the clock and life is measured out in meals and rest cures, Castorp learns to love, to argue and to look at death, while the world down on the flatland moves quietly towards 1914.