The Magic Mountain: Volume Two by Thomas Mann on Free Audio Book Download

Thomas MannвЂ™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 вЂ“ 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, MannвЂ™s novel is regarded by many as one of the key literary texts of the twentieth century.