The Magic Mountain: Complete 2 Volumes
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Summary
Hans Castorp, a recent university graduate on the verge of becoming an engineer, visits a mountain sanatorium to see his cousin. What was meant to be a brief three-week stay takes an unexpected turn when he contracts a lung disease. During his prolonged stay at the sanatorium, he meets a host of colorful fellow patients and, under the influence of the mountain's "rules," gradually sinks into lethargy. He slowly loses sight of his ideals and career, lingering instead in mind-bending debates and a painful infatuation with a married Russian woman. Over the course of seven long years, he grows accustomed to life on the mountain and even decides to settle there until his death—until a sudden thunderclap jolts him awake...
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Deep readers with a strong interest in classics of modern European literature
- Readers who enjoy philosophical speculation and psychological fiction
- Readers seeking to understand the early twentieth-century European spirit and civilizational anxiety
- Readers capable of appreciating a dense, refined, and richly symbolic narrative style
Not a good fit for
- Readers seeking light entertainment or fast-paced plots
- Readers impatient with lengthy theoretical discussion and static psychological description
Reading tips
- Set aside uninterrupted reading time to immerse yourself in the novel's distinctive atmosphere of time and space.
- It helps to have some familiarity with the social and cultural background of pre-World War I Europe in order to grasp the work's layers of metaphor.
- Consider taking notes as you read to sort out the different ideas represented by the many characters and how they clash.
About the publisher
Shaanxi Normal University Press is a comprehensive publisher that gives equal weight to humanistic scholarship and general reading, with publishing directions covering law, world classics, social psychology, classic works, mystery and detective fiction, and foreign literature. In law, it offers theoretical translations such as Hegel's Philosophy of Right; in literature, it publishes Chinese and foreign classics including Gone with the Wind, Pride and Prejudice, Don Quixote, Six Records of a Floating Life, and The Complete Sherlock Holmes, with translators such as Jia Wenhao, Jia Wenyuan, and Jia Lingyi. It also publishes in social psychology and biography, such as The Neurotic Personality of Our Time and Beethoven. The library currently holds 210 titles; public information is limited, yet the overall profile shows a publishing character that balances academic depth with popular readability.
Contents
- 版权信息
- 上册
- 第一章
- 到达
- 三十四号房间
- 第二章
- 关于洗礼盆和双重性格的祖父
- 在蒂恩纳佩尔家以及卡斯托普的品德
- 第三章
- 神秘的面纱
- 早餐
- 取笑·旅行用品·欢乐受挫
- 魔鬼
- 心理的磨炼
- 多余的话
- 当然，是一个女人！
- 阿尔宾先生
- 魔鬼提出不光彩的建议
- 第四章
- 必要的采购
- 关于时间的附记
- 他练习法语
- 政治上可疑
- 希佩
- 分析
- 怀疑和揣测
- 餐桌上的谈话
- 疑虑重重：关于两个祖父和黄昏的舟游
- 体温表
- 第五章
- 一成不变的汤
- 顿悟
- 自由
- 水银之奇想
- 百科全书
- 关于人体的知识
- 探索
- 死亡之舞
- 沃普尔吉斯之夜
- 下册
- 第六章
- 改变
- 新来的那个人
- 关于上帝之城以及恶魔的释放
- 愤怒以及更糟糕的事
- 进攻与击退
- 精神磨炼
- 雪
- 勇敢的战士
- 第七章
- 穿过时间的海洋
- 皮佩尔科尔恩先生
- 二十一点
- 皮佩尔科尔恩先生（续）
- 皮佩尔科尔恩先生（完）
- 不近人情
- 悦耳的小调
- 疑云重重
- 狂热的激情
- 晴天霹雳
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About the author
Thomas Mann (1875–1955) was a German novelist and essayist and a leading figure of twentieth-century German realist literature. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929 for Buddenbrooks, and his other major works include The Magic Mountain, Death in Venice, and Doctor Faustus. His writing probes the tensions between the artist and society and between reason and decadence, in a style both disciplined and deeply reflective. During his exile he firmly opposed the Nazis, and his stance and creative work together shaped the intellectual image of modern German literature. The library holds 21 of his works, spanning foreign literature, essays and miscellaneous writings, and social novels.
Wu Xueying is a Chinese author about whom limited public information is available. Two works bearing this name are currently known, falling respectively into the fields of foreign literature and industrial technology. Among them, The Magic Mountain: Complete in 2 Volumes relates to a work of foreign literature, suggesting involvement in literary translation or editing, while Electrical Control and PLC Application Technology (2nd Edition) is a technical book on electrical automation and programmable controller applications intended for readers in related specialties. Judging from the available works, Wu Xueying's writing or compilation spans both the humanities and technology, presenting literary material on the one hand and systematically introducing industrial technical knowledge on the other. As biographical information has not been made public, details of education, career, and writing style cannot be described in depth; readers may refer to the two works above to understand the direction of this author's work.
