The author of The Magic Mountain sets two giants side by side in a long study of Goethe and Tolstoy as natural, physical men of genius. A wartime portrait of Frederick the Great and his struggle against the coalition of Europe follows, and then a sceptical, fascinated account of Mann’s own evening at a medium’s séance.
Mann’s thought in its essay form, in H. T. Lowe-Porter’s translation, for readers of German literature and ideas. Download the free EPUB.