Moby Dick
Captain Ahab’s hunt for the white whale — a sea adventure, an encyclopaedia of whaling and a great American novel.
- Author
- Herman Melville
- First published
- 1851
- Length
- About 211,000 words (roughly 750 print pages)
- Formats
- EPUB (DRM-free) · Online reader
- Language
- English (American spelling)
- Edition source
- Standard Ebooks (public-domain dedication, CC0)
About this book
“Call me Ishmael.” A restless young man signs on to the whaling ship Pequod and discovers that its captain, Ahab, has only one purpose: to find and kill the white whale that took his leg, whatever the cost to his crew.
Between storms and chases, Melville roams through philosophy, comedy, natural history and the hard daily work of a nineteenth-century whaler. Few novels are so ambitious, or so alive.
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- The complete text — about 211,000 words (roughly 750 print pages)
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Credits & licence
Ebook edition: Standard Ebooks, released into the public domain (CC0 1.0). Produced for Standard Ebooks by Robin Whittleton, based on a transcription from Project Gutenberg and digital scans from the Internet Archive. Cover: Standard Ebooks design adapted from “The Flying Dutchman”, a painting completed in 1887 by Albert Pinkham Ryder (public domain). EPUB and web reader edition packaged by Paper Lane Books from the Standard Ebooks source files. Standard Ebooks is not affiliated with Paper Lane Books and does not endorse this shop.
