This is the setting that Thomas Mann chose for his influential 1924 novel, "The Magic Mountain." The story begins in 1907. Hans Castorp, the son of a Hamburg merchant and aspiring engineer ...

If I had followed his advice, who knows, I might still be there! I wrote The Magic Mountain instead.” ...

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Thomas Mann, the Nobel Prize-winning author of works including "The Magic Mountain" and "Joseph and His Brothers" fled to the US in 1938 after the Nazis came to power in Germany. The Thomas Mann ...