Audiobooks Action & Adventure Fiction Mardi Vol. 1
Mardi Vol. 1

Mardi Vol. 1

by Herman MELVILLE (1819 - 1891)

"Not long ago, having published two narratives of voyages in the Pacific, which, in many quarters, were received with incredulity, the thought occurred to me, of indeed writing a romance of Polynesian adventure, and publishing it as such; to see whether, the fiction might not, possibly, be received for a verity: in some degree the reverse of my previous experience...This thought was the germ of others, which have resulted in Mardi" (Herman Melville, Preface).


000 Preface

001 Foot in Stirrup

002 A Calm

003 A King for a Comrade

004 A Chat in the Clouds

005 Seats secured and Portmanteaus packed

006 Eight Bells

007 A Pause

008 They push off, Velis et Remis

009 The Watery World is all before Them

010 They arrange their Canopies and Lounges, and try to make Things comfortable

011 Jarl afflicted with the Lockjaw

012 More about being in an open Boat

013 Of the Chondropterygii, and other uncouth Hordes infesting the South Seas

014 Jarl's Misgivings

015 A Stitch in Time saves Nine

016 They are Becalmed

017 In high Spirits they push on for the Terra Incognita

018 My Lord Shark and his Pages

019 Who goes there?

020 Noises and Portents

021 Man ho!

022 What befel the Brigantine at the Pearl Shell Islands

023 Sailing from the Island they pillage the Cabin

024 Dedicated to the College of Physicians and Surgeons

025 Peril a Peace-maker

026 Containing a Pennyweight of Philosophy

027 In which the past History of the Parki is concluded

028 Suspicions laid, and something about the Calmuc

029 What they lighted upon in further searching the Craft, and the Resolution they came to

030 Hints for a full length of Samoa

031 Rovings Alow and Aloft

032 Xiphius Platypterus

033 Otard

034 How they steered on their Way

035 Ah, Annatoo!

036 The Parki gives up the Ghost

037 Once more they take to the Chamois

038 The Sea on Fire

039 They fall in with Strangers

040 Sire and Sons

041 A Fray

042 Remorse

043 The Tent entered

044 Away!

045 Reminiscences

046 The Chamois with a roving Commission

047 Yillah, Jarl, and Samoa

048 Something under the Surface

049 Yillah

050 Yillah in Ardair

051 The Dream begins to fade

052 World ho!

053 The Chamois Ashore

054 A Gentleman from the Sun

055 Tiffin in a Temple

056 King Media a Host

057 Taji takes Counsel with himself

058 Mardi by Night and Yillah by Day

059 Their Morning Meal

060 Belshazzar on the Bench

061 An incognito

062 Taji retires from the World

063 Odo and its Lord

064 Yillah a Phantom

065 Taji makes three Acquaintances

066 With a fair Wind at Sunrise they sail

067 Little King Peepi

068 How Teeth were regarded in Valapee

069 The Company discourse, and Braid-Beard rehearses a Legend

070 the Minstrel leads off with a Paddle-Song; and a Message is received from Abroad

071 They land upon the Island of Juam

072 A Book from the Chronicles of Mohi

073 Something more of the Prince

074 Advancing deeper into the Vale, they encounter Donjalolo

075 Time and Temples

076 A pleasant Place for a Lounge

077 The House of the Afternoon

078 Babbalanja solus

079 The Center of Many Circumferences

080 Donjalolo in the Bosom of his Family

081 Wherein Babbalanja relates the Adventure of one Karkeke in the Land of Shades

082 How Donjalolo sent Agents to the surrounding Isles; with the Result

083 They visit the Tributary Islets

084 Taji sits down to Dinner with five-and-twenty Kings, and a royal Time they have

085 After Dinner

086 Of those Scamps the Plujii

087 Nora-Bamma

088 In a Calm, Hautia's Heralds approach

089 Braid-Beard rehearses the Origin of the Isle of Rogues

090 Rare Sport at Ohonoo

091 Of King Uhia and his Subjects

092 The God Keevi and the Precipice of Mondo

093 Babbalanja steps in between Mohi and Yoomy; and Yoomy relates a Legend

094 Of that jolly old Lord, Borabolla; and that jolly Island of his, Mondoldo; and of the Fish-ponds, and the Hereafters of Fish

095 That jolly old Lord Borabolla laughs on both Sides of his Face

096 Samoa a Surgeon

097 Faith and Knowledge

098 The Tale of a Traveler

099 ''Marnee Ora, Ora Marnee.''

100 The Pursuer himself is pursued

101 The Iris

102 They depart from Mondoldo

103 As they sail

104 Wherein Babbalanja broaches a diabolical Theory, and in his own Person proves it