Trips to the Moon: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Trips to the Moon, credited to Lucian of Samosata, 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:

The endeavour of small Greek historians to add interest to their work by magnifying the exploits of their countrymen, and piling wonder upon wonder, Lucian first condemned in his Instructions for Writing History, and then caricatured in his True History, wherein is contained the account of a trip to the moon, a piece which must have been enjoyed by Rabelais, which suggested to Cyrano de Bergerac his Voyages to the Moon and to the Sun, and insensibly contributed, perhaps, directly or through Bergerac, to the conception of Gulliver’s Travels. The Icaro-Menippus Dialogue describes another trip to the moon, though its satire is more especially directed against the philosophers. (Summary from the Introduction)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Trips to the Moon
• Author credits: Lucian of Samosata
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 6
• Listed recording duration: 3:27:22

Catalogue topics

• audio books
• fiction
• satire
• adventure

Track guide

1. 1 - Introduction — 16:27
2. 2 - Instructions for Writing History Part 1 — 30:25
3. 3 - Instructions for Writing History Part 2 — 28:56
4. 4 - True History Preface and Part 1 — 44:55
5. 5 - The True History, Book 2 — 43:12
6. 6 - Icaro--Menippus. A Dialogue — 43:30

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