The Magic Mountain

Kathy Miller
Oct 22, 2025
1 min read

Thomas Mann, 1912

did not finish

800 pages of slow death by tuberculosis. I got about 10 percent in and couldn't go any further. There are several more of his novels on the List, I hope I can read any of them.

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