Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville
"Moby Dick; Or, The Whale" by Herman Melville is an epic novel published in 1851. Sailor Ishmael narrates the obsessive quest of Captain Ahab, who commands the whaling ship Pequod in pursuit of Moby Dick, a giant white sperm whale that destroyed his leg. Ahab's monomaniacal hunt for vengeance drives the ship and its diverse crew across the world's oceans, blending realistic whaling details with profound explorations of good, evil, fate, and
human nature in this cornerstone of American literature. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 |
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| Title | Moby Dick; Or, The Whale |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moby-Dick |
| Note | Project Gutenberg eBook #15 is believed to have the highest quality of the three editions of this eBook in the Project Gutenberg collection. #2701 and #2489 are the others. In addition, there is a computer-generated audio eBook, #9147, and a human audio performance, #28794. |
| Credits | Daniel Lazarus, Jonesey, and David Widger |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 73.3 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature |
| Subject | Whaling -- Fiction |
| Subject | Sea stories |
| Subject | Psychological fiction |
| Subject | Ship captains -- Fiction |
| Subject | Adventure stories |
| Subject | Mentally ill -- Fiction |
| Subject | Ahab, Captain (Fictitious character) -- Fiction |
| Subject | Whales -- Fiction |
| Subject | Whaling ships -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 2701 |
| Release Date | Jul 1, 2001 |
| Most Recently Updated | Sep 11, 2025 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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