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Moby Dick, or, The whale
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An edition of Moby Dick
(1851)
Moby Dick, or, The whale
by Herman Melville
- 65 Ratings
- 457 Want to read
- 27 Currently reading
- 82 Have read
Previews available in: English French
"Command the murderous chalices! Drink ye harpooners! Drink and swear, ye men that man the deathful whaleboat's bow -- Death to Moby Dick!" So Captain Ahab binds his crew to fulfil his obsession -- the destruction of the great white whale. Under his lordly but maniacal command the Pequod's commercial mission is perverted to one of vengeance. To Ahab, the monster that destroyed his body is not a creature, but the symbol of "some unknown but still reasoning thing." Uncowed by natural disasters, ill omens, even death, Ahab urges his ship towards "the undeliverable, nameless perils of the whale." Key letters from Melville to Nathaniel Hawthorne are printed at the end of this volume. - Back cover.
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American Sea stories, Mentally ill, Whaling, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Whales, great_books_of_the_western_world, Translations into French, Literature, Captain Ahab (Fictitious character), American Adventure stories, Sailors, Sea stories, Classic Literature, Whaling in literature, Young Adult Fiction, Open Library Staff Picks, open_syllabus_project, Fiction, Ship captains, Whaling ships, Juvenile fiction, Chasse, Whales in literature, Shipwrecks, Baleines, Long Now Manual for Civilization, General, Children: Grades 4-6, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Ahab, captain (fictitious character), fiction, Whaling, fiction, Children's fiction, Whales, fiction, Fiction, action & adventure, Fiction, psychological, Literature and fiction (general), Fiction, sea stories, Fiction, fantasy, epic, Poetry (poetic works by one author), Melville, herman, 1819-1891, American literature, history and criticism, Sea stories, history and criticism, Large type books, Literature and fiction, action and adventure, Illustrations, Pictorial works, Drama (dramatic works by one author), Picture-writing in literature, Readers (Primary), Readers for new literates, Adventure and adventurers, fictionPeople
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