Mardi Vol. 2: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Mardi Vol. 2, credited to Herman Melville, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Mardi, and a Voyage Thither, by Herman Melville. Read by James K. White. Mardi is Melville's first purely fictional work. In it he contemplates man's beliefs, and questions whether or not one faith has value over another--or is it all simply a sham? Mardi is a poetically existential analysis of religious truths as told through the protagonist's allegorical wanderings across the South Pacific. But is this all that Mardi is? (Summary by James K. White)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Mardi Vol. 2
• Author credits: Herman Melville
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 19
• Combined MP3 track duration: 12:50:00

Catalogue topics

• sea stories
• whale
• ship
• philosophy

Track guide

1. 01 - Chapters I - V — 39:52
2. 02 - Chapters VI - X — 36:43
3. 03 - Chapters XI - XV — 29:37
4. 04 - Chapters XVI - XX — 52:21
5. 05 - Chapters XXI - XXV — 34:32
6. 06 - Chapters XXVI - XXX — 34:58
7. 07 - Chapters XXXI - XXXV — 49:01
8. 08 - Chapters XXXVI - XL — 37:51
9. 09 - Chapters XLI - XLV — 42:02
10. 10 - Chapters XLVI - L — 42:29
11. 11 - Chapters LI - LV — 42:09
12. 12 - Chapters LVI - LX — 55:20
13. 13 - Chapters LXI - LXV — 31:24
14. 14 - Chapters LXVI - LXX — 38:50
15. 15 - Chapters LXXI - LXXV — 42:27
16. 16 - Chapters LXXVI - LXXIX — 1:05:19
17. 17 - Chapters LXXX - LXXXIV — 55:53
18. 18 - Chapters LXXXV - LXXXVII — 12:25
19. 19 - Chapters LXXXVIII - XCI — 26:46

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