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THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN [DER ZAUBERBERG]

by Thomas Mann
Translated from the German by H. T. Lowe-Porter
Vintage Books Edition, March 1969
© 1927 by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
© Copyright renewed 1955 by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
© 1952 by Thomas Mann
Originally issued as Der Zauberberg, © 1924 by S. Fischer Verlag, Berlin

Table of Contents:

  • Translator’s Note
  • Foreword
  • CHAPTER 1
    • Arrival
    • Number 34
    • In the Restaurant
  • CHAPTER 2
    • Of the Christening Basin, and of Grandfather in His Twofold Guise
    • At Tienappels’, and of Young Hans’s Moral State
  • CHAPTER 3
    • Drawing the Veil
    • Breakfast
    • Banter. Viaticum. Interrupted Mirth
    • Satana
    • Mental Gymnastic
    • A Word Too Much
    • Of Course, A Female!
    • Herr Albin
    • Satana Makes Proposals That Touch Our Honour
  • CHAPTER 4
    • Necessary Purchases
    • Excursus on the Sense of Time
    • He Practises His French
    • Politically Suspect
    • Hippe
    • Analysis
    • Doubts and Considerations
    • Table-Talk
    • Mounting Misgivings. Of the Two Grandfathers, and the Boat-ride in the Twilight
    • The Thermometer
  • CHAPTER 5
    • Soup-Everlasting
    • Sudden Enlightenment
    • Freedom
    • Whims of Mercurius
    • Encyclopaedic
    • Humaniora
    • Research
    • The Dance of Death
    • Walpurgis-Night
  • CHAPTER 6
    • Changes
    • A New-Comer
    • Of the City of God, and Deliverance by Evil
    • Choler. And Worse
    • An Attack, and a Repulse
    • Operationes Spirituales
    • Snow
    • A Soldier, and Brave
  • CHAPTER 7
    • By the Ocean of Time
    • Mynheer Peeperkorn
    • Vingt Et Un
    • Mynheer Peeperkorn (Continued)
    • Mynheer Peeperkorn (Conclusion)
    • The Great God Dumps
    • Fullness of Harmony
    • Highly Questionable
    • Hysterica Passio
    • The Thunderbolt
  • Author’s Note
  • About the Author