Mardi Vol. 2


Read by James K. White

(4 stars; 7 reviews)

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) (12 hr 49 min)

Chapters

Chapters I - V 39:52 Read by James K. White
Chapters VI - X 36:43 Read by James K. White
Chapters XI - XV 29:37 Read by James K. White
Chapters XVI - XX 52:21 Read by James K. White
Chapters XXI - XXV 34:32 Read by James K. White
Chapters XXVI - XXX 34:58 Read by James K. White
Chapters XXXI - XXXV 49:01 Read by James K. White
Chapters XXXVI - XL 37:51 Read by James K. White
Chapters XLI - XLV 42:02 Read by James K. White
Chapters XLVI - L 42:29 Read by James K. White
Chapters LI - LV 42:09 Read by James K. White
Chapters LVI - LX 55:20 Read by James K. White
Chapters LXI - LXV 31:24 Read by James K. White
Chapters LXVI - LXX 38:50 Read by James K. White
Chapters LXXI - LXXV 42:27 Read by James K. White
Chapters LXXVI - LXXIX 1:05:19 Read by James K. White
Chapters LXXX - LXXXIV 55:53 Read by James K. White
Chapters LXXXV - LXXXVII 12:25 Read by James K. White
Chapters LXXXVIII - XCI 26:46 Read by James K. White

Reviews


(3 stars)

Good reading, but the book, while having sparks of interest early on, is extremely long and boring.