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)
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Chapters
- Chapter 1
Chapters I - V
39:52 - Chapter 2
Chapters VI - X
36:43 - Chapter 3
Chapters XI - XV
29:37 - Chapter 4
Chapters XVI - XX
52:21 - Chapter 5
Chapters XXI - XXV
34:32 - Chapter 6
Chapters XXVI - XXX
34:58 - Chapter 7
Chapters XXXI - XXXV
49:01 - Chapter 8
Chapters XXXVI - XL
37:51 - Chapter 9
Chapters XLI - XLV
42:02 - Chapter 10
Chapters XLVI - L
42:29 - Chapter 11
Chapters LI - LV
42:09 - Chapter 12
Chapters LVI - LX
55:20 - Chapter 13
Chapters LXI - LXV
31:24 - Chapter 14
Chapters LXVI - LXX
38:50 - Chapter 15
Chapters LXXI - LXXV
42:27 - Chapter 16
Chapters LXXVI - LXXIX
1:05:19 - Chapter 17
Chapters LXXX - LXXXIV
55:53 - Chapter 18
Chapters LXXXV - LXXXVII
12:25 - Chapter 19
Chapters LXXXVIII - XCI
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