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Title: Moby Dick; Or, The Whale
Note: Wikipedia page about this book: https://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
Summary: "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.)
Reading Level: Reading ease score: 73.3 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.
Author: Melville, Herman, 1819-1891
EBook No.: 2701
Published: Jul 1, 2001
Downloads: 132189
Language: English
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
LoCC: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
Category: Text
Rights: Public domain in the USA.
This edition has images.
Title: Moby Dick; Or, The Whale
Note: Wikipedia page about this book: https://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
Summary: "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.)
Reading Level: Reading ease score: 73.3 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.
Author: Melville, Herman, 1819-1891
EBook No.: 2701
Published: Jul 1, 2001
Downloads: 132189
Language: English
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
LoCC: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
Category: Text
Rights: Public domain in the USA.