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Jan 1, 1995 · Seeking adventure at sea, young Ishmael joins the crew of a whaling ship. Soon, however, he finds that he's gotten more than he bargained for. The captain, having lost his leg to a whale he calls Moby Dick, is crazed with revenge and gives little thought to his crew's safety.
- Moby Dick Books
Books shelved as moby-dick: Moby-Dick or, The Whale by...
- Moby Dick by Geraldine McCaughrean
Moby Dick is a vast and dangerous white whale. An enemy for...
- Moby Dick Books
Books shelved as moby-dick: Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville, In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbric...
Dec 17, 2023 · Herman Melville was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period. Among his best-known works are Moby-Dick (1851); Typee (1846), a romanticized account of his experiences in Polynesia; and Billy Budd, Sailor, a posthumously published novella.
Apr 16, 1998 · Moby Dick is a vast and dangerous white whale. An enemy for many years after the whale bit off his leg, the crazed Captain Ahab is obsessed with his quarry. Together with his extraordinary crew, Ahab braves the oceans of the world to hunt the fearsome Moby Dick.
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is an 1851 epic novel by American writer Herman Melville. The book is centered on the sailor Ishmael 's narrative of the maniacal quest of Ahab , captain of the whaling ship Pequod , for vengeance against Moby Dick , the giant white sperm whale that bit off his leg on the ship's previous voyage.
Herman Melville's thrilling nautical adventure—a timeless allegory and an epic saga of heroic determination and conflict. At the heart of Moby-Dick is the powerful, unknowable sea—and Captain...
Deeply affected by Hawthorne and his reading of William Shakespeare, Melville wrote Moby-Dick, his greatest novel, in a blaze of creative energy, publishing it in late 1851. It was a commercial and critical failure.
