Amazon.com description: Product Description: A morbid description of the decadence. The magic mountain was the book that got the Nobel Prize for the celebrated German writer Thomas Mann. In this story, located in a tubercular sanatorium at the top of a mountain, the author created an incredible microcosm, as a reflex of what he considered to be the decadence of his native land and of the whole European civilization. The protagonist Hans Castorp, an average person without any aspiration to turn into a hero, represents the ordinary man, isolated in an environment where things happen but without any of the characters doing anything to prevent or to advance the facts. Considered as one of the greatest novels of universal literature, it is a proud addition for this series of audiobooks.