Hear Moby Dick Learn in Its Entirety by Benedict Cumberbatch, Tilda Swinton, John Waters, Stephen Fry & Extra

Picture of Moby Dick by David Austen.

In 2013, Ply­mouth Uni­ver­si­ty kicked off Moby Dick The Large Learn, promis­ing a full audio­e book of Her­man Melville’s influ­en­tial nov­el, with well-known (and never so well-known) voic­es tak­ing on a chap­ter every. After we first wrote about it right here, solely six chap­ters had been unveiled, however boast­ed actors like Til­da Swin­ton (learn­ing chap­ter one beneath), writer Nigel Williams, and poet and jour­nal­ist Musa Okwon­ga.

We’re glad to say the challenge reached its suc­cess­ful con­clu­sion. They usually cer­tain­ly referred to as on an impres­sive ros­ter of celebri­ty learn­ers: Stephen Fry, Neil Ten­nant, Fiona Shaw, Will Self, Bene­dict Cum­ber­batch, Chi­na Miéville, Tony Kush­n­er, John Waters, Simon Cal­low, Sir David Atten­bor­ough, even for­mer Prime Min­is­ter David Cameron. Pulitzer Prize win­ning poet Mary Oliv­er fin­ish­es off the entire challenge, learn­ing the Epi­logue.

All 135 chap­ters are avail­capable of be lis­tened to in your brows­er, down­loaded on iTunes, or streamed on Sound­Cloud. How­ev­er, do test them out on-line, as every chap­ter comes with a murals every cre­at­ed by 135 con­tem­po­rary artists corresponding to Matthew Bar­ney, Oliv­er Clegg, and Matthew Bene­dict. (See David Austen’s work above.) The challenge is a mam­moth underneath­tak­ing befit­ting such a mon­u­males­tal e book, and in the event you’ve nev­er learn it this simply is likely to be the way in which to go.

Copies of Moby Dick will be present in our col­lec­tion of Free eBooks. Imply­whereas, this huge learn­ing can be added to our col­lec­tion of Free Audio Books.

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Relat­ed Con­tent:

Why Ought to We Learn Melville’s Moby-Dick? A TED-Ed Ani­ma­tion Makes the Case

The right way to Mem­o­rize an Whole Chap­ter from “Moby Dick”: The Artwork and Sci­ence of Remem­ber­ing Each­factor

An Illus­tra­tion of Each Web page of Her­man Melville’s Moby Dick

How Ray Brad­bury Wrote the Script for John Huston’s Moby Dick (1956)

Orson Welles Reads From Moby-Dick: The Nice Amer­i­can Direc­tor Takes on the Nice Amer­i­can Nov­el

Ted Mills is a free­lance author on the humanities who cur­lease­ly hosts the artist inter­view-based FunkZone Pod­solid. You may also fol­low him on Twit­ter at @tedmills, learn his oth­er arts writ­ing at tedmills.com and/or watch his movies right here.