Moby Dick, or the Whale: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Moby Dick, or the Whale, 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 Moby Dick, or the Whale, by Herman Melville. Read by Stewart Wills Few things, even in literature, can really be said to be unique -- but Moby Dick is truly unlike anything written before or since. The novel is nominally about the obsessive hunt by the crazed Captain Ahab of the book's eponymous white whale. But interspersed in that story are digressions, paradoxes, philosophical riffs on whaling and life, and a display of techniques so advanced for its time that some have referred to the 1851 Moby Dick as the first "modern" novel. (Summary by Stewart Wills)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Moby Dick, or the Whale
• Author credits: Herman Melville
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 44
• Listed recording duration: 24:37:50

Opening tracks: first 24 of 44

1. Chapter 000: Etymology and Extracts — 29:14
2. Chapter 001-002 — 23:57
3. Chapter 003 — 34:54
4. Chapter 004-007 — 27:10
5. Chapter 008-009 — 29:37
6. Chapter 010-012 — 19:29
7. Chapter 013-015 — 23:08
8. Chapter 016 — 35:19
9. Chapter 017-021 — 42:50
10. Chapter 022-025 — 27:26
11. Chapter 026-027 — 19:20
12. Chapter 028-031 — 25:00
13. Chapter 032 — 36:58
14. Chapter 033-035 — 38:11
15. Chapter 036-040 — 42:17
16. Chapter 041 — 26:29
17. Chapter 042-044 — 43:36
18. Chapter 045-047 — 37:10
19. Chapter 048-050 — 38:30
20. Chapter 051-053 — 27:05
21. Chapter 054 — 54:15
22. Chapter 055-058 — 37:10
23. Chapter 059-063 — 38:46
24. Chapter 064-067 — 37:06

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