The Complete Novels of Herman Melville: Sea Tales, Maritime Adventures & Philosophical Novels
By Herman Melville
Length138h 8m
About this audiobook
In "The Complete Novels of Herman Melville: Sea Tales, Maritime Adventures & Philosophical Novels," readers are invited on an enthralling journey through the depths of the sea and the complexities of the human spirit. Melville's masterful narrative style intertwines rich symbolism with stark realism, presenting tales that explore existential themes, the struggle against fate, and the intricate relationships between man and nature. Each novel serves as a microcosm of Melville's literary prowess, showcasing his ability to balance adventure with profound philosophical insight, beckoning readers to reflect on the moral and metaphysical quandaries of life. Herman Melville, a towering figure in American literature, drew from his own experiences at sea, having served as a sailor in his youth. His travels through the Pacific and encounters with diverse cultures profoundly shaped his worldview and inspired his narratives. A contemporary of Twain and Hawthorne, Melville's works often grappled with the darker currents of human existence, revealing his deep philosophical inquiries into identity, morality, and the sublime. This collection is a must-read for anyone interested in the fusion of adventure and philosophy. Melville's profound insights and rich storytelling invite readers to engage with the moral questions woven into the fabric of human experience, making this anthology a timeless exploration of the sea's vast metaphorical significance and its resonance in our lives.
Audiobook details
GenreLiterary Classics, General Fiction
Length138 hrs 8 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 11, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Preface
2Chapter 1
3Chapter 2
4Chapter 3
5Chapter 4
Show all chaptersShow less
6Chapter 5
7Chapter 6
8Chapter 7
9Chapter 8
10Chapter 9
11Chapter 10
12Chapter 11
13Chapter 12
14Chapter 13
15Chapter 14
16Chapter 15
17Chapter 16
18Chapter 17
19Chapter 18
20Chapter 19
21Chapter 20
22Chapter 21
23Chapter 22
24Chapter 23
25Chapter 24
26Chapter 25
27Chapter 26
28Chapter 27
29Chapter 28
30Chapter 29
31Chapter 30
32Chapter 31
33Chapter 32
34Chapter 33
35Chapter 34
36The Story of Toby
37Chapter 1. My Reception Aboard
38Chapter 2. Some Account of the Ship
39Chapter 3. Further Account of the Julia
40Chapter 4. A Scene in the Forecastle
41Chapter 5. What happened at Hytyhoo
42Chapter 6. We touch at La Dominica
43Chapter 7. What happened at Hannamanoo
44Chapter 8. The Tattooers of La Dominica
45Chapter 9. We steer to the Westward—State of Affairs
46Chapter 10. A Sea-Parlour described, with some of its Tenants
47Chapter 11. Doctor Long Ghost a Wag—One of his Capers
48Chapter 12. Death and Burial of two of the Crew
49Chapter 13. Our Destination changed
50Chapter 14. Rope Yarn
50 American ClassicsHerman Melville, Walt Whitman, Henry David Thoreau, Sinclair Lewis, Louisa May Alcott, Emily Dickinson, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, Kate Chopin, Theodore Dreiser, Edith Wharton, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Mark Twain, Mary Mapes Dodge, Jack London, James Fenimore Cooper, Stephen Crane, O. Henry, Henry James, Edgar Allan Poe, Washington Irving, H. P. Lovecraft, L. Frank Baum, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Lew Wallace, Max Brand, Zane Grey, Dillon Wallace, Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, Harriet Jacobs, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Richard Henry Dana, William Dean Howells, Edward Bellamy, Willa Cather, Ambrose Bierce, E. W. Hornung, Wallace D. Wattles, William Walker Atkinson823h 7m4.4 (42)$0.99
Moby DickHerman Melville24h 41m3.8 (715.5K)$0.99 · $0.00
New York Narratives: A 40-Book Library of Old New York Stories & NovelsHerman Melville, Theodore Dreiser, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Edith Wharton, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Horatio Jr. Alger, Edgar Fawcett, Grace Livingston Hill, H. C. Witwer, Myra Kelly, Clara Morris, Louis Tracy, Basil King, Arthur Stringer, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Montague Glass, Emma Speed Sampson, A. M. Williamson, C. N. Williamson, Cosmo Hamilton, Robert W. Chambers, H. C. Bunner, Louis Joseph Vance, Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow, Anthony Hope, John Bell Bouton, Gilbert Parker, George Barr McCutcheon, Owen Johnson, Ernest Poole, Lemuel Ely Quigg364h 25m$0.99
Moby DickHerman Melville24h 41m3.8 (724.5K)$0.99 · $0.00
THE GREAT SEA ADVENTURE - Pirate Novels, Treasure-Hunt Tales & Maritime StoriesHerman Melville, R. L. Stevenson, Daniel Defoe, Tobias Smollett, Walter Scott, Frederick Marryat, Edgar Allan Poe, James Fenimore Cooper, Thomas Mayne Reid, Victor Hugo, R. M. Ballantyne, Jules Verne, Jack London, L. Frank Baum, Randall Parrish, Charles Boardman Hawes, Joseph Conrad, Rudyard Kipling, Ralph Henry Barbour, Rafael Sabatini, Jeffery Farnol, Henry De Vere Stacpoole571h 3m$0.99 · $0.00
Billy Budd (Annotated)Herman Melville5h 12m3.2 (20.1K)$2 · $0.00
Benito Cereno & Bartleby (Annotated)Herman Melville6h 34m$2 · $0.00
Die größten philosophischen Romane (Kommentiert)Herman Melville, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Franz Kafka, Friedrich Nietzsche, Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, André Gide, Rainer Maria Rilke, Joseph Conrad, Knut Hamsun, Klaus Mann, Fjodor Michailowitsch Dostojewski, Oscar Wilde, Thomas Wolfe176h 27m4.3 (10)$1 · $0.00
TYPEE & OMOO (Modern Classics Series) (Annotated)Herman Melville25h 7m4.2 (36)$2 · $0.00
Gesammelte Werke (Kommentiert)Herman Melville55h 57m4.4 (21)$2 · $0.00
Bartleby, der Schreiber (Kommentiert)Herman Melville3h 42m4.4 (156)$1 · $0.00
Taipi (Kommentiert)Herman Melville11h 52m4.3 (107)$1 · $0.00
Meisterwerke der amerikanischen Literatur - Klassiker, die man kennen muss (Kommentiert)Herman Melville, Thomas Wolfe, Henry David Thoreau, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Walt Whitman, Sinclair Lewis, Mark Twain, Jack London, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Edgar Allan Poe290h 22m$2 · $0.00
Bartleby, der Schreiber: Eine Geschichte aus der Wall Street (Kommentiert)Herman Melville3h 41m4.1 (700)$1 · $0.00
The EncantadasHerman Melville3h 35m3.9 (1.6K)$1 · $0.00
Vier Monate auf den Marquesas-Inseln oder ein Blick auf Polynesisches LebenHerman Melville12h 12m3.6 (23.3K)$1 · $0.00
Redburn. His First VoyageHerman Melville13h 25m3.8 (6.9K)$3 · $0.00
Moby DickHerman Melville24h 28m3.8 (732.1K)$1 · $0.00
Moby DickHerman Melville24h 28m3.9 (711.6K)$1 · $0.00
Moby DickHerman Melville24h 28m3.8 (705K)$1 · $0.00
The Complete Works of Jane Austen (Unabridged)Jane Austen88h 8m4.7 (8.6K)$1 · $0.00
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Annotated)William Shakespeare157h 18m4.7 (1.9K)$2 · $0.00
C. S. LewisC. S. Lewis38h 55m4.7 (24.8K)$30
The Jeeves and Wooster Stories: The Complete Collection (33 Books)P. G. Wodehouse21h 57m4.7 (2.8K)$15 · $0.00
The Gulag Archipelago Volume 3Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn21h 56m4.7 (8.9K)$46 · $0.00
Sherlock Holmes: The Ultimate CollectionArthur Conan Doyle59h 49m4.6 (16.7K)$5 · $0.00
The Complete Works of Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Novels, Short Stories and Autobiographical WritingsFyodor Dostoyevsky270h 59m4.7 (2.5K)$2 · $0.00
The Bark Canoes and Skin Boats of North America (Annotated)Howard Irving Chapelle, Tappan Adney13h 9m4.8 (150)$0.99 · $0.00
Charles Dickens: Complete Works (Annotated)Charles Dickens818h 55m4.6 (4.3K)$0.99 · $0.00
The Complete Novels of Jane Austen & Brontë Sisters (Annotated)Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Anne Brontë204h 15m4.7 (2.6K)$0.99 · $0.00
The Complete Works: Charlotte, Emily, Anne, Patrick & Branwell BrontëCharlotte Brontë, Anne Brontë, Emily Brontë138h 12m4.6 (2.8K)$1 · $0.00
The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Annotated)Oscar Wilde126h 19m4.6 (2.7K)$2 · $0.00
L. M. Montgomery – Premium Collection: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry & MemoirsLucy Maud Montgomery155h 1m4.7 (1.1K)$2 · $0.00
The Complete Works of the Brontë Family Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Anne Brontë140h 13m4.6 (2.6K)$2 · $0.00
MARK TWAIN: 12 Novels, 195 Short Stories, Autobiography, 10 Travel Books, 160+ Essays & Speeches (Illustrated)Mark Twain415h 9m4.6 (2.5K)$2 · $0.00
This Side of Paradise - The Original 1920 Edition (Annotated)F. Scott Fitzgerald11h 30m4.6 (1.6K)$2 · $0.00
The Great Gatsby: Original 1925 Edition (An F. Scott Fitzgerald Classic NovelFrancis Scott Fitzgerald4h 45m4.6 (9.3K)$18 · $0.00
The Complete Works: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Articles, Essays, Travel Sketches and Memoirs (Annotated)Anthony Trollope1096h 4m4.6 (1.4K)$0.99 · $0.00
Ivanhoe (Annotated)Walter Scott22h 52m4.8 (88)$2 · $0.00
The Complete Works of G. K. Chesterton (Annotated)G. K. Chesterton421h 37m4.6 (1.2K)$1.99 · $0.00
The Ghost Pirates (Annotated)William Hope Hodgson5h 30m5.0 (135)$1.20 · $0.00
The Chronicles of Narnia Complete Audio CollectionC. S. Lewis33h 46m4.7 (17.1K)$52 · $0.00
Under His ProtectionB. Love5h 7m4.8 (1.4K)$15
Heart of IronC. M. Alongi15h 24m4.8 (665)$30
Ethic IIAshley Antoinette9h 1m4.7 (8K)$20
RiversnowTess Thompson8h 11m4.7 (1.3K)$20
Supreme ClienteleAshley & JaQuavis8h 58m4.7 (3.4K)$20
Body Refinement in a Beast Tamer’s World, Book 1Seth Ring14h 7m4.7 (1.3K)$27
The Complete Works of Jane Austen (Unabridged)Jane Austen88h 8m4.7 (8.6K)$1 · $0.00
Desperate MeasuresBrenda Jackson8h 59m4.7 (669)$28 · $0.00
Searching For ThanksgivingS.E. Smith4h 24m4.8 (395)$20
Naughty 4Brenda Hampton7h 30m4.7 (726)$17
The Dance with Me TrilogyShelley Shepard Gray21h 44m4.7 (1.2K)$35
Anne Shirley (Complete 14 Book Collection)Lucy Maud Montgomery125h 28m4.7 (2.4K)$2 · $0.00
The DopemanJaQuavis Coleman5h 25m4.7 (3.8K)$20
Sherlock Holmes: The Ultimate CollectionArthur Conan Doyle59h 49m4.6 (16.7K)$5 · $0.00
BAEJahquel J.5h 22m4.7 (3.1K)$20
Dark RisingJeffrey Wilson, Brian Andrews13h 47m4.7 (1.3K)$27
WhistlerAnn Patchett10h 45m4.6 (4.6K)$29 · $0.00
Grand Opening 2Carl Weber9h 16m4.7 (2.4K)$20
You may also like
The Bounty TrilogyCharles Nordhoff, James Norman Hall32h 41m4.4 (1.6K)$2 · $0.00
Roughing itMark Twain17h 39m4.1 (12.3K)$21 · $0.00
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of NantucketEdgar Allan Poe8h 4m3.6 (18.9K)$7
A Narrative Of The Mutiny, On Board His Majesty's Ship BountyWilliam Bligh4h 23m3.9 (5.3K)$2 · $0.00
Woodcraft and Camping (Annotated)George Washington Sears3h 30m4.6 (1.2K)$0.99 · $0.00
Robinson CrusoeDaniel Defoe11h 55m3.9 (394.9K)$20 · $0.00
Captain Cook's Journal During the First Voyage Round the World made in H.M. bark "Endeavour" (Annotated)James Cook24h 32m4.2 (794)$2 · $0.00
Manuscript Found in a BottleEdgar Allan Poe30m3.9 (12.1K)$1
The Boy Fortune Hunters in AlaskaL. Frank Baum5h 3m4.1 (11)$2.30
The Field Of IceJules Verne5h 25m3.9 (538)$2.30
A Year In ChinaMrs. H. Dwight Williams9h 26m$2.40
Stories of the North by Jack London (Complete Edition)Jack London45h 38m4.0 (146)$1 · $0.00
A Voyage to the South Sea (Annotated)William Bligh10h 7m4.4 (152)$0.99 · $0.00
The Black BarqueT. Jenkins Hains7h 31m$2 · $0.00
Great Escapes #4: Survival in the WildernessSteven Otfinoski1h 31m3.7 (47)$16 · $0.00
An Impromptu Ascent of Mont BlancW. H. Le Mesurier1h 47m$2 · $0.00
Through the South Seas with Jack LondonMartin Johnson10h 11m4.2 (13)$2.30
The Captive in PatagoniaBenjamin Franklin Bourne6h 31m3.7 (22)$1 · $0.00
Typee & The Sequel, Omoo (Annotated)Herman Melville25h 10m4.0 (25)$0.99 · $0.00
The Coral Island & The Gorilla Hunters (Annotated)R. M. Ballantyne21h 19m$2 · $0.00