The Further Adventures of Zorro: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Further Adventures of Zorro, credited to Johnston McCulley, 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 Further Adventures of Zorro by Johnston McCulley. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. The Further Adventures of Zorro is the second novel Johnston McCulley wrote about Californian vigilante Zorro, the secret identity of Don Diego Vega. First published serially in Argosy All-Story Weekly between May and June 1922, this novel is the direct sequel to the 1919 novel The Curse of Capistrano. Although McCulley initially intended Zorro’s story to be complete in a single novel, the 1920 film adaptation The Mark of Zorro popularized the character sufficiently to convince McCulley to write another Zorro novel. Because McCulley wrote The Curse of Capistrano to be a stand-alone story, he concluded that story by having Don Diego publicly reveal his secret identity, which resulted in Zorro’s identity being public knowledge in The Further Adventures of Zorro. Consequently, Don Diego does not wear a mask in this novel, no longer needing to hide his identity. This fact makes The Further Adventures of Zorro unusual among Zorro stories, as subsequent installations in the series retconned away the public reveal to return Zorro to being a masked secret identity. With Zorro’s iconic mask not appearing in this novel, this story emphasizes the sword of Zorro as the primary marker of Don Diego’s vigilante identity. American film star Douglas Fairbanks, who both produced and starred in the first Zorro film, acquired the film rights to The Further Adventures of Zorro and subsequently made a second Zorro film called Don Q, Son of Zorro in 1925, but the plot of this film is primarily based on an unrelated novel by other authors. Although McCulley went on to write many more Zorro stories, it was nearly a decade after the serial publication of The Further Adventures of Zorro before another of McCulley’s Zorro stories appeared in print, the next being Zorro Rides Again in 1931. - Summary by Salvationist

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Further Adventures of Zorro
• Author credits: Johnston McCulley
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 31
• Listed recording duration: 7:41:55

Catalogue topics

• fiction
• adventure
• pirates
• dramatic reading
• zorro

Opening tracks: first 24 of 31

1. 01 - Land Rats and Water Rats — 28:12
2. 02 - Pedro the Boaster — 10:16
3. 03 - Sudden Turmoil — 16:22
4. 04 - Fray Felipe Makes a Vow — 13:08
5. 05 - Zorro Takes the Trail — 18:27
6. 06 - Zorro Strikes — 10:21
7. 07 - Señor Zorro's Daring — 13:39
8. 08 - The Goblet — 16:57
9. 09 - Love and Mystery — 13:20
10. 10 - A Dead Pirate — 12:30
11. 11 - Zorro Walks the Plank — 25:27
12. 12 - To the Rescue — 11:44
13. 13 - Tragedy at a Distance — 14:20
14. 14 - Out of the Depths — 13:19
15. 15 - A Show of Gratitude — 20:09
16. 16 - Singing Caballeros — 23:06
17. 17 - A Wild Ride — 13:29
18. 18 - Hope Is Crushed Again — 19:38
19. 19 - Double-Faced — 11:49
20. 20 - The Unexpected — 13:12
21. 21 - Face to Face — 8:03
22. 22 - A Price to Be Paid — 14:53
23. 23 - The Señorita Plots Also — 16:05
24. 24 - Into the Open — 10:35

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