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
Chapters
1 Chapter 6: Changes (1) 28 min 2 Chapter 6: Changes (2) 27 min 3 Chapter 6: Changes (3) 15 min 4 Chapter 6: A New-comer (1) 17 min 5 Chapter 6: A New-comer (2) 18 min 6 Chapter 6: A New-comer (3) 20 min 7 Chapter 6:Of the City of God... (1) 13 min 8 Chapter 6: Of the City of God... (2) 18 min 9 Chapter 6: Of the City of God...(3) 28 min 10 Chapter 6: Of the City of God...(4) 20 min 11 Chapter 6: Choler and Worse (1) 20 min 12 Chapter 6: Choler and Worse (2) 18 min 13 Chapter 6: An Attack and a Repulse (1) 23 min 14 Chapter 6: An Attack and a Repulse (2) 20 min 15 Chapter 6: Operationes Spirituales (1) 21 min 16 Chapter 6: Operationes Spirituales (2) 23 min 17 Chapter 6: Operationes Spirituales (3) 19 min 18 Chapter 6: Operationes Spirituales (4) 24 min 19 Chapter 6: Snow (1) 26 min 20 Chapter 6: Snow (2) 25 min 21 Chapter 6: Snow (3) 23 min 22 Chapter 6: Snow (4) 16 min 23 Chapter 6: A Soldier, and Brave (1) 22 min 24 Chapter 6: A Soldier, and Brave (2) 24 min 25 Chapter 6: A Soldier, and Brave (3) 23 min 26 Chapter 6: A Soldier, and Brave (4) 20 min 27 Chapter 6: A Soldier, and Brave (5) 35 min 28 Chapter 7: By the Ocean of Time 22 min 29 Chapter 7: Mynheer Peeperkorn 23 min 30 Chapter 7: Vingt et Un (1) 25 min 31 Chapter 7: Vingt et Un (2) 29 min 32 Chapter 7: Mynheer Peeperkorn Continued (1) 25 min 33 Chapter 7: Mynheer Peeperkorn Continued (2) 26 min 34 Chapter 7: Mynheer Peeperkorn Continued (3) 25 min 35 Chapter 7: Mynheer Peeperkorn Continued (4) 24 min 36 Chapter 7: Mynheer Peeperkorn Continued (5) 18 min 37 Chapter 7: Mynheer Peeperkorn Concluded (1) 18 min 38 Chapter 7: Mynheer Peeperkorn Concluded (2) 17 min 39 Chapter 7: The Great God Dumps (1) 19 min 40 Chapter 7: The Great God Dumps (2) 15 min 41 Chapter 7: Fullness of Harmony (1) 18 min 42 Chapter 7: Fullness of Harmony (2) 20 min 43 Chapter 7: Fullness of Harmony (3) 17 min 44 Chapter 7: Highly Questionable (1) 20 min 45 Chapter 7: Highly Questionable (2) 27 min 46 Chapter 7: Highly Questionable (3) 16 min 47 Chapter 7: Highly Questionable (4) 22 min 48 Chapter 7: Hysterica Passio (1) 24 min 49 Chapter 7: Hysterica Passio (2) 26 min 50 Chapter 7: Hysterica Passio (3) 23 min 51 Chapter 7: The Thunderbolt 32 min
