Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 5 days ago

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In this video, I invite you to join us in a two-month reading of Thomas Mann's masterpiece, The Magic Mountain.

The group formerly known as The Ulysses Six has reconvened to read this magnum opus of Thomas Mann during the months of November and December, 2026, and we'd love to have you join us. Let me know in the comments section if you think you might be interested.

BookTubers co-hosting this event:
Greg @anotherbibliophilereads
Allen @hardbooks770
Roy @royreadsanything
Debs @RaynorReadsStuff
Will @willchambers8065
Aaron @aaronfacer
David @PolyglotReadingEnglish
(David can also be found @polyglotreading and @ThomasMannProject .)
Pat @BookChatWithPat8668

Here's Greg's announcement video of this event @anotherbibliophilereads:
youtu.be/BvzN80KKruY?si=seDppA779WK5wLuF

Here is a link to Greg's Discord:

discord.gg/5G2rFHmsDm

Here's Allen's Announcement video:
youtu.be/BOlZvnfMWwk?si=-lfRwSg5x1QNT8Ws

Here's Roy's Announcement video:
youtu.be/L2BusvMbp4E?si=NcSZz_FpRvTJbhWA

Here's Aaron's Announcement video:
youtu.be/h7ntHqqvgWQ?si=Q3zzruwacTHdGOIs

Here's Debs' Announcement video:
youtu.be/iO11jRE9UNY?si=iDctHZw_wYwYlVHQ

This schedule is based on the John E. Woods translation (Knopf hardcover; Vintage paperback):

Week 1 -- 90 pages, Nov 1–7, Chapters 1 to 3 to page 90.
Week 2 -- 90 pages, Nov 8–14, Chapter 4 to page 180.
Week 3 -- 83 pages, Nov 15–21, Chapter 5 (begin) to page 263 (stop at Research).
Week 4 -- 76 pages, Nov 22–28, Chapter 5 (end) to page 339.
Week 5 -- 93 pages, Nov 29–Dec 5, Chapter 6 (begin) to page 432 (stop at Operationes Spirituales).
Week 6 -- 98 pages, Dec 6–12, Chapter 6 (end) to page 531.
Week 7 -- 95 pages, Dec 13–19, Chapter 7 (begin) to page 626 (stop at Fullness of Harmony).
Week 8 -- 81 pages, Dec 20–31, Chapter 7 (finish) to 707.

Available editions:

Mann, Thomas. The Magic Mountain. Trans. H.T. Lowe-Porter. Secker
and Warburg, 1927.

Mann, Thomas. The Magic Mountain. Trans. H.T. Lowe-Porter. Modern Library College Editions/Random House, 1955.

Mann, Thomas. The Magic Mountain. Trans.John E. Woods. Knopf, 1995.

Mann, Thomas. The Magic Mountain. Trans. John E. Woods. Vintage International, 1996.

Mann, Thomas. The Magic Mountain. Trans. Simon Pare. Oxford World's Classics, 2026.

Mann, Thomas. The Magic Mountain. Trans. Susan Bernofsky. W.W. Norton, forthcoming.

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