Free online listen to The Magic Mountain audiobook by Thomas Mann and narrated by David Rintoul . Are you a Thomas Mann fan ? if yes you will love The Magic Mountain audiobook. Now lets try to play the audio and leave a comment about this book.
The Magic Mountain audiobook Reviews:
1/If you download the Kindle edition, you are TRICKED! It is not the newer – much better! – Woods translation. Instead you get a ponderous, older translation which follows German grammar, which is both boring and difficult to plow through.
It seems impossible to get the John E. Woods translation here at Amazon in a Kindle edition. If you click on the Woods translation, you arrive here – at the WRONG translation!
It’s a marvelous book, but you’d never know that from this ponderous OLD poor translation. And very poor ebook quality!
I was a German major 55 years ago. So I know whereof I speak! (Amazon should be ashamed!)
2/I have to agree completely with one of the earlier reviews. So far the book is fairly entertaining but then I get to the place where Hans and Mme. Chauchat finally have a conversation and the whole thing is in French. Fabulous. I bought the English translation because, rather surprisingly, I don’t speak German. Well, I also don’t speak French, so it might have been helpful to translate that as well. I will probably continue on unless I encounter more dialogue which I can’t understand, in which case I will have to give up and limit myself to works written entirely in my native language, or at least translated completely into that language.
3/Firstly, the Lowe-Porter translation doesn’t hold a candle to Woods’ masterful illustration of this inimitable novel. I’ve described it in conversation as “Gravity’s Rainbow-level creative” writing.
