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Two travelers escape the mundane world to embark on an allegorical voyage across a fantastical South Seas archipelago. What begins as a quest for a lost love transforms into a dense, satirical exploration of philosophy, politics, and the human condition. It is a daring, experimental journey through the mind’s most uncharted territories.
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GenreLiterary Classics, General Fiction
Length22 hrs 49 mins
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Publish dateFeb 24, 2026
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Table of contents
1Volume. I
101CHAPTER C. The Pursuer Himself Is Pursued
2CHAPTER I. Foot In Stirrup
102CHAPTER CI. The Iris
3CHAPTER II. A Calm
103CHAPTER CII. They Depart From Mondoldo
4CHAPTER III. A King For A Comrade
104CHAPTER CIII. As They Sail
5CHAPTER IV. A Chat In The Clouds
105CHAPTER CIV. Wherein Babbalanja Broaches A Diabolical Theory, And In His Own Person Proves It: END OF VOL. I.
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6CHAPTER V. Seats Secured And Portmanteaus Packed
106VOLUME. II
7CHAPTER VI. Eight Bells
107CHAPTER I. Maramma
8CHAPTER VII. A Pause
108CHAPTER II. They Land
9CHAPTER VIII. They Push Off, Velis Et Remis
109CHAPTER III. They Pass Through The Woods
10CHAPTER IX. The Watery World Is All Before Them
110CHAPTER IV. Hivohitee MDCCCXLVIII
11CHAPTER X. They Arrange Their Canopies And Lounges, And Try To Make Things Comfortable
111CHAPTER V. They Visit The Great Morai
12CHAPTER XI. Jarl Afflicted With The Lockjaw
112CHAPTER VI. They Discourse Of The Gods Of Mardi, And Braid-Beard Tells Of One Foni
13CHAPTER XII. More About Being In An Open Boat
113CHAPTER VII. They Visit The Lake Of Yammo
14CHAPTER XIII. Of The Chondropterygii, And Other Uncouth Hordes Infesting The South Seas
114CHAPTER VIII. They Meet The Pilgrims At The Temple Of Oro
15CHAPTER XIV. Jarl’s Misgivings
115CHAPTER IX. They Discourse Of Alma
16CHAPTER XV. A Stitch In Time Saves Nine
116CHAPTER X. Mohi Tells Of One Ravoo, And They Land To Visit Hevaneva, A Flourishing Artisan
17CHAPTER XVI. They Are Becalmed
117CHAPTER XI. A Nursery-Tale Of Babbalanja’s
18CHAPTER XVII. In High Spirits, They Push On For The Terra Incognita
118CHAPTER XII. Landing To Visit Hivohitee The Pontiff, They Encounter An Extraordinary Old Hermit; With Whom Yoomy Has A Confidential Interview, But Learns Little
19CHAPTER XVIII. My Lord Shark And His Pages
119CHAPTER XIII. Babbalanja Endeavors To Explain The Mystery
20CHAPTER XIX. Who Goes There?
120CHAPTER XIV. Taji Receives Tidings And Omens
21CHAPTER XX. Noises And Portents
121CHAPTER XV. Dreams
22CHAPTER XXI. Man Ho!
122CHAPTER XVI. Media And Babbalanja Discourse
23CHAPTER XXII. What Befel The Brigantine At The Pearl Shell Islands
123CHAPTER XVII. They Regale Themselves With Their Pipes
24CHAPTER XXIII. Sailing From The Island They Pillage The Cabin
124CHAPTER XVIII. They Visit An Extraordinary Old Antiquary
25CHAPTER XXIV. Dedicated To The College Of Physicians And Surgeons
125CHAPTER XIX. They Go Down Into The Catacombs
26CHAPTER XXV. Peril A Peace-Maker
126CHAPTER XX. Babbalanja Quotes From An Antique Pagan; And Earnestly Presses It Upon The Company, That What He Recites Is Not His But Another’s
27CHAPTER XXVI. Containing A Pennyweight Of Philosophy
127CHAPTER XXI. They Visit A Wealthy Old Pauper
28CHAPTER XXVII. In Which The Past History Of The Parki Is Concluded
128CHAPTER XXII. Yoomy Sings Some Odd Verses, And Babbalanja Quotes From The Old Authors Right And Left
29CHAPTER XXVIII. Suspicions Laid, And Something About The Calmuc
129CHAPTER XXIII. What Manner Of Men The Tapparians Were
30CHAPTER XXIX. What They Lighted Upon In Further Searching The Craft, And The Resolution They Came To
130CHAPTER XXIV. Their Adventures Upon Landing At Pimminee
31CHAPTER XXX. Hints For A Full Length Of Samoa
131CHAPTER XXV. A, I, AND O
32CHAPTER XXXI. Rovings Alow And Aloft
132CHAPTER XXVI. A Reception-Day At Pimminee
33CHAPTER XXXII. Xiphius Platypterus
133CHAPTER XXVII. Babbalanja Falleth Upon Pimminee Tooth And Nail
34CHAPTER XXXIII. Otard
134CHAPTER XXVIII. Babbalanja Regales The Company With Some Sandwiches
35CHAPTER XXXIV. How They Steered On Their Way
135CHAPTER XXIX. They Still Remain Upon The Rock
36CHAPTER XXXV. Ah, Annatoo!
136CHAPTER XXX. Behind And Before
37CHAPTER XXXVI. The Parki Gives Up The Ghost
137CHAPTER XXXI. Babbalanja Discourses In The Dark
38CHAPTER XXXVII. Once More They Take To The Chamois
138CHAPTER XXXII. My Lord Media Summons Mohi To The Stand
39CHAPTER XXXVIII. The Sea On Fire
139CHAPTER XXXIII. Wherein Babbalanja And Yoomy Embrace
40CHAPTER XXXIX. They Fall In With Strangers
140CHAPTER XXXIV. Of The Isle Of Diranda
41CHAPTER XL. Sire And Sons
141CHAPTER XXXV. They Visit The Lords Piko And Hello
42CHAPTER XLI. A Fray
142CHAPTER XXXVI. They Attend The Games
43CHAPTER XLII. Remorse
143CHAPTER XXXVII. Taji Still Hunted, And Beckoned
44CHAPTER XLIII. The Tent Entered
144CHAPTER XXXVIII. They Embark From Diranda
45CHAPTER XLIV. Away!
145CHAPTER XXXIX. Wherein Babbalanja Discourses Of Himself
46CHAPTER XLV. Reminiscences
146CHAPTER XL. Of The Sorcerers In The Isle Of Minda
47CHAPTER XLVI. The Chamois With A Roving Commission
147CHAPTER XLI. Chiefly Of Sing Bello
48CHAPTER XLVII. Yillah, Jarl, And Samoa
148CHAPTER XLII. Dominora And Vivenza
49CHAPTER XLVIII. Something Under The Surface
149CHAPTER XLIII. They Land At Dominora
50CHAPTER XLIX. Yillah
150CHAPTER XLIV. Through Dominora, They Wander After Yillah
51CHAPTER L. Yillah In Ardair
151CHAPTER XLV. They Behold King Bello’s State Canoe
52CHAPTER LI. The Dream Begins To Fade
152CHAPTER XLVI. Wherein Babbalanja Bows Thrice
53CHAPTER LII. World Ho!
153CHAPTER XLVII. Babbalanja Philosophizes, And My Lord Media Passes Round The Calabashes
54CHAPTER LIII. The Chamois Ashore
154CHAPTER XLVIII. They Sail Round An Island Without Landing; And Talk Round A Subject Without Getting At It
55CHAPTER LIV. A Gentleman From The Sun
155CHAPTER XLIX. They Draw Nigh To Porpheero; Where They Behold A Terrific Eruption
56CHAPTER LV. Tiffin In A Temple
156CHAPTER L. Wherein King Media Celebrates The Glories Of Autumn, The Minstrel, The Promise Of Spring
57CHAPTER LVI. King Media A Host
157CHAPTER LI. In Which Azzageddi Seems To Use Babbalanja For A Mouth-Piece
58CHAPTER LVII. Taji Takes Counsel With Himself
158CHAPTER LII. The Charming Yoomy Sings
59CHAPTER LVIII. Mardi By Night And Yillah By Day
159CHAPTER LIII. They Draw Nigh Unto Land
60CHAPTER LIX. Their Morning Meal
160CHAPTER LIV. They Visit The Great Central Temple Of Vivenza
61CHAPTER LX. Belshazzar On The Bench
161CHAPTER LV. Wherein Babbalanja Comments Upon The Speech Of Alanno
62CHAPTER LXI. An Incognito
162CHAPTER LVI. A Scene In The Land Of Warwicks, Or King-Makers
63CHAPTER LXII. Taji Retires From The World
163CHAPTER LVII. They Hearken Unto A Voice From The Gods
64CHAPTER LXIII. Odo And Its Lord
164CHAPTER LVIII. They Visit The Extreme South Of Vivenza
65CHAPTER LXIV. Yillah A Phantom
165CHAPTER LIX. They Converse Of The Mollusca, Kings, Toad-Stools And Other Matters
66CHAPTER LXV. Taji Makes Three Acquaintances
166CHAPTER LX. Wherein, That Gallant Gentleman And Demi-God, King Media, Scepter In Hand, Throws Himself Into The Breach
67CHAPTER LXVI. With A Fair Wind, At Sunrise They Sail
167CHAPTER LXI. They Round The Stormy Cape Of Capes
68CHAPTER LXVII. Little King Peepi
168CHAPTER LXII. They Encounter Gold-Hunters
69CHAPTER LXVIII. How Teeth Were Regarded In Valapee
169CHAPTER LXIII. They Seek Through The Isles Of Palms; And Pass The Isles Of Myrrh
70CHAPTER LXIX. The Company Discourse, And Braid-Beard Rehearses A Legend
170CHAPTER LXIV. Concentric, Inward, With Mardi’s Reef, They Leave Their Wake Around The World
71CHAPTER LXX. The Minstrel Leads Off With A Paddle-Song; And A Message Is Received From Abroad
171CHAPTER LXV. Sailing On
72CHAPTER LXXI. They Land Upon The Island Of Juam
172CHAPTER LXVI. A Flight Of Nightingales From Yoomy’s Mouth
73CHAPTER LXXII. A Book From The Chronicles Of Mohi
173CHAPTER LXVII. They Visit One Doxodox
74CHAPTER LXXIII. Something More Of The Prince
174CHAPTER LXVIII. King Media Dreams
75CHAPTER LXXIV. Advancing Deeper Into The Vale, They Encounter Donjalolo
175CHAPTER LXIX. After A Long Interval, By Night They Are Becalmed
76CHAPTER LXXV. Time And Temples
176CHAPTER LXX. They Land At Hooloomooloo
77CHAPTER LXXVI. A Pleasant Place For A Lounge
177CHAPTER LXXI. A Book From The “Ponderings Of Old Bardianna”
78CHAPTER LXXVII. The House Of The Afternoon
178CHAPTER LXXII. Babbalanja Starts To His Feet
79CHAPTER LXXVIII. Babbalanja Solus
179CHAPTER LXXIII. At Last, The Last Mention Is Made Of Old Bardianna; And His Last Will And Testament Is Recited At Length
80CHAPTER LXXIX. The Center Of Many Circumferences
180CHAPTER LXXIV. A Death-Cloud Sweeps By Them, As They Sail
81CHAPTER LXXX. Donjalolo In The Bosom Of His Family
181CHAPTER LXXV. They Visit The Palmy King Abrazza
82CHAPTER LXXXI. Wherein Babbalanja Relates The Adventure Of One Karkeke In The Land Of Shades
182CHAPTER LXXVI. Some Pleasant, Shady Talk In The Groves, Between My Lords Abrazza And Media, Babbalanja, Mohi, And Yoomy
83CHAPTER LXXXII. How Donjalolo, Sent Agents To The Surrounding Isles; With The Result
183CHAPTER LXXVII. They Sup
84CHAPTER LXXXIII. They Visit The Tributary Islets
184CHAPTER LXXVIII. They Embark
85CHAPTER LXXXIV. Taji Sits Down To Dinner With Five-And-Twenty Kings, And A Royal Time They Have
185CHAPTER LXXIX. Babbalanja At The Full Of The Moon
86CHAPTER LXXXV. After Dinner
186CHAPTER LXXX. Morning
87CHAPTER LXXXVI. Of Those Scamps The Plujii
187CHAPTER LXXXI. L’ultima Sera
88CHAPTER LXXXVII. Nora-Bamma
188CHAPTER LXXXII. They Sail From Night To Day
89CHAPTER LXXXVIII. In A Calm, Hautia’s Heralds Approach
189CHAPTER LXXXIII. They Land
90CHAPTER LXXXIX. Braid-Beard Rehearses The Origin Of The Isle Of Rogues
190CHAPTER LXXXIV. Babbalanja Relates To Them A Vision
91CHAPTER XC. Rare Sport At Ohonoo
191CHAPTER LXXXV. They Depart From Serenia
92CHAPTER XCI. Of King Uhia And His Subjects
192CHAPTER LXXXVI. They Meet The Phantoms
93CHAPTER XCII. The God Keevi And The Precipice Of Mondo
193CHAPTER LXXXVII. They Draw Nigh To Flozella
94CHAPTER XCIII. Babbalanja Steps In Between Mohi And Yoomy; And Yoomy Relates A Legend
194CHAPTER LXXXVIII. They Land
95CHAPTER XCIV. Of That Jolly Old Lord, Borabolla; And That Jolly Island Of His, Mondoldo; And Of The Fish-Ponds, And The Hereafters Of Fish
195CHAPTER LXXXIX. They Enter The Bower Of Hautia
96CHAPTER XCV. That Jolly Old Lord Borabolla Laughs On Both Sides Of His Face
196CHAPTER XC. Taji With Hautia
97CHAPTER XCVI. Samoa A Surgeon
197CHAPTER XCI. Mardi Behind: An Ocean Before
98CHAPTER XCVII. Faith And Knowledge
198END OF THE BOOK.
99CHAPTER XCVIII. The Tale Of A Traveler
199IMPRINT | DISCLAIMER
100CHAPTER XCIX. “Marnee Ora, Ora Marnee”
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