Moby Dick
A young seaman joins the crew of the fanatical Captain Ahab in pursuit of the white whale Moby Dick.
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Whaling > Fiction. |
Genre |
Sea fiction. Downloadable audio books. Sound recordings. Fiction. |
- ISBN: 9781449877873
- Physical Description 1 audio file (21 hr.) : digital.
- Edition Unabridged.
- Publisher Prince Frederick, Md. : Recorded Books ; 2011.
- Copyright ℗1987
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General Note: | Downloadable audio file. Title from title screen (viewed April 27, 2011). GMD: electronic resource. |
Restrictions on Access Note: | Access restricted to subscribing institutions. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Narrated by Frank Muller. |
System Details Note: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. Requires OneClick Digital Media Manager. System requirements: 200 MB of free disk space, 512 MB of RAM, Windows Installer 3.1, Microsoft .NET Framework 4 (x86 and x64), Windows Media Player 10 QA. |
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Moby Dick
Its famous opening line, "Call me Ishmael," dramatic in its stark simplicity, begins an epic that is widely regarded as the greatest novel ever written by an American. Labeled variously a realistic story of whaling, a romance of unusual adventure and eccentric characters, a symbolic allegory, and a drama of heroic conflict, Moby Dick is first and foremost a great story. It has both the humor and poignancy of a simple sea ballad, as well as the depth and universality of a grand odyssey. When Melville's father died in 1832, the young man's financial security went too. For a while he turned to school-mastering and clerking, but failed to make a sustainable income. In 1840 he signed up on the whaler, Acushnet, out of New Bedford, Massachusetts. He was just 21. A whaler's life turned out to be both arduous and dangerous, and in 1842, Melville deserted ship. Out of this experience and a wealth of printed sources, Melville crafted his masterpiece.