The Fable of the Bees: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Fable of the Bees, credited to Bernard Mandeville, 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 The Fable of the Bees by Bernard Mandeville. Read in English by Matthew Muñoz Bernard Mandeville's didactic poem praising the virtues that personal vices bestow on society as a whole, along with several treatises and dialogues explaining and defending it. Mandeville's theories were influential in the development of both the moral philosophy of the Scottish Enlightenment and the methodology of modern economics. - Summary by Matthew Muñoz

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Fable of the Bees
• Author credits: Bernard Mandeville
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 48
• Listed recording duration: 21:27:17

Catalogue topics

• politics
• economics
• ethics
• vice

Opening tracks: first 24 of 48

1. 00 - Part I, Preface — 12:39
2. 01 - Part I, The Grumbling Hive: or Knaves turn’d Honest — 18:54
3. 02 - Part I, The Introduction — 1:39
4. 03 - Part I, An Inquiry into the Origin of Moral Virtue — 23:54
5. 04 - Part I, Remarks, Line 45 — 5:31
6. 05 - Part I, Remarks, Line 55 — 4:00
7. 06 - Part I, Remarks, Line 101 — 29:28
8. 07 - Part I, Remarks, Line 125 — 1:58
9. 08 - Part I, Remarks, Line 128 — 5:40
10. 09 - Part I, Remarks, Line 163 — 1:49
11. 10 - Part I, Remarks, Line 167 — 14:02
12. 11 - Part I, Remarks, Line 173 — 9:01
13. 12 - Part I, Remarks, Line 177 — 4:34
14. 13 - Part I, Remarks, Line 180 — 28:56
15. 14 - Part I, Remarks, Line 182 — 18:34
16. 15 - Part I, Remarks, Line 183 — 22:38
17. 16 - Part I, Remarks, Line 200 — 34:10
18. 17 - Part I, Remarks, Line 201 — 21:44
19. 18 - Part I, Remarks, Line 307 — 26:36
20. 19 - Part I, Remarks, Line 321 — 42:55
21. 20 - Part I, Remarks, Line 353 — 2:53
22. 21 - Part I, Remarks, Line 367 — 25:46
23. 22 - Part I, Remarks, Line 388 — 12:06
24. 23 - Part I, Remarks, Line 410 — 3:35

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