The Magic Mountain (Volume One)


Read by Steve Gough

(4 stars; 18 reviews)

Thomas Mann’s epic novel depicts a decaying, corrupted European society on the eve of the First World War. Set in a luxurious sanatorium high up in the Swiss mountains, we follow the destinies of a variety of exotic characters – members of a bourgeois elite drawn from all parts of Europe. Most suffer from consumption, dream of a cure - yet are at the same time squeezing as much pleasure and distraction as they can out of a situation ever-shadowed by sickness, pain, and death. Part surreal comedy, part grim tragedy, part allegory, and part novel of ideas, Mann’s novel is regarded by many as one of the key literary texts of the twentieth century.
Summary by Steve Gough (16 hr 20 min)

Chapters

Forward 3:56 Read by Steve Gough
Chapter 1: Arrival 21:09 Read by Steve Gough
Chapter 1: Number Thirty Four 9:21 Read by Steve Gough
Chapter 1: In the Restaurant 14:53 Read by Steve Gough
Chapter 2: Of the Christening Basin 30:02 Read by Steve Gough
Chapter 2: At Tienappels 25:31 Read by Steve Gough
Chapter 3: Drawing the Veil 8:28 Read by Steve Gough
Chapter 3: Breakfast 20:25 Read by Steve Gough
Chapter 3: Banter 25:16 Read by Steve Gough
Chapter 3: Satana 26:05 Read by Steve Gough
Chapter 3: Mental Gymnastic 15:20 Read by Steve Gough
Chapter 3: A Word too Much 11:42 Read by Steve Gough
Chapter 3: Of course, a Female 13:29 Read by Steve Gough
Chapter 3: Herr Albin 7:49 Read by Steve Gough
Chapter 3: Satana makes Proposals 31:13 Read by Steve Gough
Chapter 4: Necessary Purchases 27:10 Read by Steve Gough
Chapter 4: Excursus on the Sense of Time 10:47 Read by Steve Gough
Chapter 4: He Practises his French 12:49 Read by Steve Gough
Chapter 4: Politically Suspect 14:26 Read by Steve Gough
Chapter 4: Hippe 27:25 Read by Steve Gough
Chapter 4: Analysis 18:47 Read by Steve Gough
Chapter 4: Doubts and Considerations 9:59 Read by Steve Gough
Chapter 4: Table Talk 17:53 Read by Steve Gough
Chapter 4: Mounting Misgivings (1) 30:46 Read by Steve Gough
Chapter 4: Mounting Misgivings (2) 27:15 Read by Steve Gough
Chapter 4: The Thermometer (1) 22:34 Read by Steve Gough
Chapter 4: The Thermometer (2) 22:16 Read by Steve Gough
Chapter 4: The Thermometer (3) 16:15 Read by Steve Gough
Chapter 5: Soup Everlasting (1) 25:56 Read by Steve Gough
Chapter 5: Soup Everlasting (2) 31:03 Read by Steve Gough
Chapter 5: Sudden Enlightenment (1) 22:01 Read by Steve Gough
Chapter 5: Sudden Enlightenment (2) 23:16 Read by Steve Gough
Chapter 5: Freedom 16:09 Read by Steve Gough
Chapter 5: Whims of Mercurius 29:11 Read by Steve Gough
Chapter 5: Encyclopaedic (1) 22:33 Read by Steve Gough
Chapter 5: Encyclopaedic (2) 20:59 Read by Steve Gough
Chapter 5: Humaniora (1) 22:40 Read by Steve Gough
Chapter 5: Humaniora (2) 22:22 Read by Steve Gough
Chapter 5: Research (1) 19:19 Read by Steve Gough
Chapter 5: Research (2) 17:26 Read by Steve Gough
Chapter 5: Research (3) 19:38 Read by Steve Gough
Chapter 5: The Dance of Death (1) 20:33 Read by Steve Gough
Chapter 5: The Dance of Death (2) 21:58 Read by Steve Gough
Chapter 5: The Dance of Death (3) 22:39 Read by Steve Gough
Chapter 5: The Dance of Death (4) 17:18 Read by Steve Gough
Chapter 5: The Dance of Death (5) 17:31 Read by Steve Gough
Chapter 5: Walpurgis Night (1) 20:32 Read by Steve Gough
Chapter 5: Walpurgis Night (2) 18:59 Read by Steve Gough
Chapter 5: Walpurgis Night (3) 25:43 Read by Steve Gough

Reviews

great book I enjoyed it very much but don't bother if...


(3 stars)

you don't speak French, the last hour is all in french