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Title	:	Moby-Dick or, the Whale
Author	:	Herman Melville
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 654 pages
Published	:	February 21st 2003 by Penguin Classics (first published October 18th 1851)
Categories	:	Young Adult. LGBT. Romance. Contemporary. Fiction

Moby-Dick or, the Whale

Herman Melville

Paperback | Pages: 654 pages

Rating: 3.5 | 461624 Users | 14531 Reviews

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"It is the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships' cables and hawsers. A Polar wind blows through it, and birds of prey hover over it."

So Melville wrote of his masterpiece, one of the greatest works of imagination in literary history. In part, Moby-Dick is the story of an eerily compelling madman pursuing an unholy war against a creature as vast and dangerous and unknowable as the sea itself. But more than just a novel of adventure, more than an encyclopaedia of whaling lore and legend, the book can be seen as part of its author's lifelong meditation on America. Written with wonderfully redemptive humour, Moby-Dick is also a profound inquiry into character, faith, and the nature of perception.

This edition of Moby-Dick, which reproduces the definitive text of the novel, includes invaluable explanatory notes, along with maps, illustrations, and a glossary of nautical terms.

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Original Title:	Moby-Dick; or, The Whale
ISBN:	0142437247 (ISBN13: 9780142437247)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Elijah, Stubb, Captain Ahab, Ishmael, Queequeg, Starbuck, Tashtego, Dough-boy, Flask, Daggoo, Fedallah, Pippin ("Pip"), Moby Dick, Mapple Priest, Peleg, Bildad, Fleece, Perth
Setting:	Nantucket Island, Massachusetts(United States) Pacific Ocean Atlantic Ocean …more New Bedford, Massachusetts(United States) …less
Literary Awards:	Audie Award for Solo Narration - Male (2006), Премія імені Максима Рильського (1991)

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first introductionI read years ago about a monster marathon reading of Moby Dick in the USA, volunteers would each read a chapter aloud and they would get through the book in maybe two and a half days, where they read I do not remember, not in Nantucket or New Bedford I think, but probably in New England - which gives you better odds of finding such a reading than Ahab had in searching for the White Whale. Surprisingly such readings haven't become a major spectator sport, nor even a matter of



It's about a whale eventually. Before that it's a gay romantic comedy. "In our hearts honeymoon," says Ishmael, "lay I and Queequeg a cosy, loving pair." If you never made it past page 100, because you were assigned this in high school and it was boring, you might wonder where the whale even is. Where's this majestic tome everyone's yelling about? About a quarter in, captain Ahab shows up raving about Moby-Dick and the book takes this intense lurch into legend, and it feels like a pretty

This was the first CLASSIC I ever read strictly for pleasure...And I really, really enjoyed it...for the most part (see below). While recognizing its hallowed place among the canon of world literature, I was still surprised, pleasantly so, at how captivated I became with the novel from the very beginning. Instantly, I loved the character of Ishmael and was amused by his unconventional introduction in the novel. Forced for economic reasons to share a room at in inn with a complete stranger,

OH MY HOLY MOTHER FUCK. This novel, this FUCKING novel. Phenomenal. Astounding. Groundbreaking. One of the greatest novels ever written. Yeah there's like 200 pages of whale anatomy and the history of whales in literature and whales in art and whale classification and I LOVED EVERY SINGLE WORD OF IT. So it's five-stars. Yes, five-stars. A five-star rating here is as rare as seeing the White Whale itself! READ THIS RIGHT FUCKING NOW. NOW. NOW. NOW.

I hate this book so much. It is impossible to ignore the literary merit of this work though; it is, after all, a piece of innovative literature. Melville broke narrative expectations when he shed the narrator Ishmael and burst through with his infinite knowledge of all things whale. It was most creative, but then he pounded the reader with his knowledge of the whaling industry that could, quite literally, fill several textbooks. This made the book so incredibly dull. Im not being naïve towards

A public house in Pittsfield, Mass. Two men are at the bar: the bearded man stands, the mustachioed man sits. They take a drink of ale and the bearded man speaks.Melville: I'm doing it. I've decided.Hawthorne: Doing what?Melville: Writing my sodomy book. Hawthorne: Herman...Melville: Nathaniel...Hawthorne: It is unwise. Melville: Well...it's about sodomites more than sodomy.Hawthorne: Why would you do this?Melville: Sodomy exists, Nathaniel, and someone needs to write about it. It might as well