The Magic Mountain (Volume One)

LibriVox recording of The Magic Mountain (Volume One) by Thomas Mann. (Translated by Helen Tracy Lowe-Porter.) Read in English by Steve Gough 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 sick