Everyman's library (Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.) #289

Arrival -- Room 34 -- In the restaurant -- The baptismal bowl/Grandfather in his two forms -- At the Tienappels'/Hans Castorp's moral state -- The shadow of respectability -- Breakfast -- Teasing/Viacticum/Interrupted merriment -- Satana -- Clarity of mind -- One word too many -- But of course--a female! -- Herr Albin -- Satana makes shameful suggestions -- A necessary purchase -- Excursus on the sense of time -- He tries out his conversational French -- Politically suspect -- Hippe -- Analysis -- Doubts and considerations -- Table talk -- Growing anxiety/Two grandfathers and a twilight boat ride -- The thermometer -- Eternal soup and sudden clarity -- "My God, I see it!" -- Freedom -- Mercury's moods -- Encyclopedia -- Humaniora -- Research -- Danse macabre -- Walpurgis night -- Changes -- Someone else -- The city of God and evil deliverance -- An outburst of temper/Something very embarrassing -- An attack repulsed -- Operationes spirituales -- Snow -- A good soldier -- A stroll by the shore -- Mynheer Peeperkorn -- Vingt et un -- Mynheer Peeperkorn (continued) -- Mynheer Peeperkorn (conclusion) -- The great stupor -- Fullness of harmony -- Highly questionable -- The great petulance -- The thunderbolt

A sanitorium in the Swiss Alps reflects the societal ills of pre-twentieth-century Europe, and a young marine engineer rises from his life of anonymity to become a pivotal character in a story about how a human's environment affects self identity