Moby Dick
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Publisher Description
A literary classic that wasn't recognized for its merits until decades after its publication, Herman Melville's Moby-Dick tells the tale of a whaling ship and its crew, who are carried progressively further out to sea by the fiery Captain Ahab. Obsessed with killing the massive whale, which had previously bitten off Ahab's leg, the seasoned seafarer steers his ship to confront the creature, while the rest of the shipmates, including the young narrator, Ishmael, and the harpoon expert, Queequeg, must contend with their increasingly dire journey. The book invariably lands on any short list of the greatest American novels.
Customer Reviews
Excellent reader
Joseph Conrel does an outstanding job of reading this long novel, which helps with soldiering on to the finish. Melville writes like a master prose stylist, but the encyclopedic description of whales and other topics spoils the momentum. I much prefer his Bartleby the Scrivener.