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Moby Dick

Moby Dick

by Herman Melville
CD-Audio
Publication Date: 03/02/2015

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Featured title on PBS's The Great American Read in 2018

Ishmael, a sailor, recounts the ill-fated voyage of a whaling ship led by Captain Ahab.

Moby Dick is at once a thrilling adventure tale, a timeless allegory, and an epic saga of heroic determination and conflict. At its heart is the powerful, unknowable sea-and Captain Ahab, a brooding, one-legged fanatic who has sworn vengeance on the mammoth white whale that crippled him. Narrated by Ishmael, a wayfarer who joins the crew of Ahab's whaling ship, this is the story of that hair-raising voyage, and of the men who embraced hardship and nameless horrors as they dared to challenge God's most dreaded creation and death itself for a chance at immortality.

A novel that delves with astonishing vigor into the complex souls of men, Moby Dick is an impassioned drama of the ultimate human struggle that the Atlantic Monthly called "the greatest of American novels."

This novel is part of Brilliance Audio's extensive Classic Collection, bringing you timeless masterpieces that you and your family are sure to love.
ISBN:
9781491579480
9781491579480
Category:
Classic fiction
Format:
CD-Audio
Publication Date:
03-02-2015
Publisher:
Classic Collection
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
178x140x13mm
Weight:
0.08kg
Herman Melville

The writing career of Herman Melville (1819 - 1891) peaked early, with his early novels, such as Typee becoming best sellers.

By the mid-1850s his poularity declined sharply, and by the time he died he had been largely forgotten.

Yet in time his novel Moby Dick came to be regarded as one of the finest works of American, and indeed world, literature, as was Billy Budd, which was not published until long after his death, in 1924.

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