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T. LOWE-PORTER  \nVINTAGE BOOKS A Division of Random House New York  \nVINTAGE BOOKS-EDITION, March 1969  \nCopyright 1927 by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. Copyright renewed 1955 by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. Copyright 1952 by Thomas Mann  \nAll rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States  \nby Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York, and Random House, Inc., New York. Distributed in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. By arrangement with Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.  \nOriginally issued as Der Zauberberg. Copyright, 1924, by S. Fischer Verlag, Berlin. The author ’s note on “The Making of The Magic Mountain”first appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, January 1953.  \nManufactured in the United States ofAmerica  \nTranslator’s Note  \nThe translator wishes to thank, in this place, a number of scholars, authorities in the various special fields entered by The Magic Mountain, without whose help the version in all humility here offered to English readers, lame as it is, must have been more lacking still. That they gave so generously is not to be interpreted otherwise than as a tribute to a work of genius. But with all their help, the great difficulty remained: the violet had to be cast into the crucible, the organic work of art to be remoulded in another tongue. Shelley’s figure is perhaps not entirely apt here. Yet, since in the creative act word and thought are indivisible, the task was seen to be one before which artists would shrink and logical minds recoil.  \nBut of the author of The Magic Mountain it can be said in a special sense that he has looked into the seeds of Time. It was in dispensable that we should read his book; intolerable that English readers should be barred from a work whose spirit, whatever its vehicle, is universal. It seemed better that an English version should be done ill than not done at all.  \nH. T. L.-P.  \nContents  \nCONTENTS:  \nTranslator ’s Note Foreword  \nCHAPTER I  \nArrival Number 34 In the Restaurant  \nCHAPTER II  \nOf the Christening Basin, and of Grandfather in His Twofold Guise At Tienappels ’, and of Young Hans ’s Moral State  \nCHAPTER III  \nDrawing the Veil Breakfast  \nBanter. Viaticum. Interrupted Mirth Satana  \nMental Gymnastic A Word Too Much Of Course, A Female! Herr Albin  \nSatana Makes Proposals That Touch Our Honour  \nCHAPTER IV  \nNecessary Purchases Excursus on the Sense of Time He Practises His French Politically Suspect  \nHippe Analysis  \nDoubts and Considerations  \nTable-TalkMounting Misgivings. Of the Two Grandfathers, and the Boatride in the Twilight  \nThe Thermometer  \nCHAPTER V  \nSoup-Everlasting Sudden Enlightenment Freedom  \nWhims of Mercurius Encyclopaedic Humaniora Research The Dance of Death Walpurgis-Night  \nCHAPTER VI  \nChanges  \nA New-Comer  \nOf the City of God, and Deliverance by Evil Choler. And Worse  \nAn Attack, and a Repulse Operationes Spirituales Snow  \nA Soldier, and Brave  \nCHAPTER VII  \nBy the Ocean of Time Mynheer Peeperkorn Vingt Et Un  \nMynheer Peeperkorn (Continued) Mynheer Peeperkorn (Conclusion)  \nThe Great God Dumps Fullness of Harmony Highly Questionable Hysterica Passio The Thunderbolt Author ’s Note About the Author  \nForeword  \nTHE STORY of Hans Castorp, which we would here set forth, not on his own account, for in him the reader will make acquaintance with a simple-minded though pleasing young man, but for the sake of the story itself, which seems to us highly worth telling—though it must needs be borne in mind, in Hans Castorp’s behalf, that it is his story, and not every story happens to everybody—this story, we say, belongs to the long ago; is already, so to speak, covered with historic mould, and unquestionably to be presented in the tense best suited to a narrative out of the depth or the past.  \nThat should be no drawback to a story, but rather the reverse. 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