The Magic Mountain Vol1 by Thomas Mann audiobook.

Genre: drama

In The Magic Mountain Vol1, Thomas Mann draws listeners into the rarefied world of an Alpine tuberculosis sanatorium, where time seems to stretch and ordinary life dissolves into ritual, conversation, and waiting. Young Hamburg engineer Hans Castorp arrives for a brief visit to see his ailing cousin, Joachim Ziemssen, expecting to stay only a few weeks before returning to his career. Instead, the mountain's thin air, strict routines, and seductive detachment from the flatlands begin to work on him, blurring the line between health and illness and raising unsettling questions about what it means to live well. As Hans meets an array of long term patients and formidable doctors, he is pulled into an intellectual and emotional education shaped by competing voices: humanist ideals, radical politics, religious fervor, and the lure of pleasure. The sanatorium becomes a miniature society perched above Europe, where seemingly idle days hide deep conflicts about duty, desire, reason, and mortality. Vol1 establishes the spell of the mountain and the choices that will test Hans as the world beyond draws nearer.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:03:56) Chapter 2

(00:25:05) Chapter 3

(00:34:26) Chapter 4

(00:49:19) Chapter 5

(01:19:21) Chapter 6

(01:44:52) Chapter 7

(01:53:20) Chapter 8

(02:13:45) Chapter 9

(02:39:01) Chapter 10

(03:05:06) Chapter 11

(03:20:26) Chapter 12

(03:32:08) Chapter 13

(03:45:37) Chapter 14

(03:53:26) Chapter 15

(04:24:39) Chapter 16

(04:51:49) Chapter 17

(05:02:36) Chapter 18

(05:15:25) Chapter 19

(05:29:51) Chapter 20

(05:57:16) Chapter 21

(06:16:03) Chapter 22

(06:26:02) Chapter 23

(06:43:55) Chapter 24

(07:14:41) Chapter 25

(07:41:56) Chapter 26

(08:04:30) Chapter 27

(08:26:46) Chapter 28

(08:43:01) Chapter 29

(09:08:57) Chapter 30

(09:40:00) Chapter 31

(10:02:01) Chapter 32

(10:25:17) Chapter 33

(10:41:26) Chapter 34

(11:10:37) Chapter 35

(11:33:10) Chapter 36

(11:54:09) Chapter 37

(12:16:49) Chapter 38

(12:39:11) Chapter 39

(12:58:30) Chapter 40

(13:15:56) Chapter 41

(13:35:34) Chapter 42

(13:56:07) Chapter 43

(14:18:05) Chapter 44

(14:40:44) Chapter 45

(14:58:02) Chapter 46

(15:15:33) Chapter 47

(15:36:05) Chapter 48

(15:55:04) Chapter 49

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