![]() (Summary by Stewart Wills)įor further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording.įor more free audiobooks, or to become a volunteer reader, please visit. But interspersed in that story are digressions, paradoxes, philosophical riffs on whaling and life, and a display of techniques so advanced for its time that some have referred to the 1851 Moby Dick as the first "modern" novel. In an episode of The Simpsons called The Fat and the Furriest, Lisa admonishes Homer for planning to go fight a bear that had humiliated him earlier: Dad, you can’t take revenge on an. Moby Dick, a famous novel by Herman Melville, is a classic tale about a ship captains epic quest to find and kill a whale that bit off part of his leg on a previous voyage. We can serve our professional obligations only within that larger value system. For Father Mapple, the first duty of any shipmate is to God. The problem is how it is to be interpreted. ![]() The book is the sailor Ishmael's narrative of the obsessive quest of Ahab, captain of the whaling ship Pequod, for revenge on Moby Dick, the giant white sperm whale that on the ship's previous voyage bit off Ahab's leg at the knee. 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars. ![]() Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition, Paperback, 625 pages. The novel is nominally about the obsessive hunt by the crazed Captain Ahab of the book's eponymous white whale. Because most of the action of the novel takes place aboard ship, it is not surprising that duty is a major theme in Moby-Dick. Moby-Dick or, The Whale is an 1851 novel by American writer Herman Melville. Moby-Dick or, the Whale (Paperback) Published October 27th 2009 by Penguin Classics. Librivox recording of Moby Dick, or the Whale, by Herman Melville.įew things, even in literature, can really be said to be unique - but Moby Dick is truly unlike anything written before or since. Moby Dick runs in various modes, and Jonathan Epstein, while overall an excellent narrator, handles some better than others. Moby Dick is an exciting story about Captain Ahabs compelling obsession to get his revenge and defeat the Great White Whale. ![]()
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