num_pages: 736
description: Widely considered one of the great American novels, Herman Melville’s masterpiece went largely unread during his lifetime and was out of print at the time of his death in 1891. Called the greatest book about the sea ever written by D.H. Lawrence, Moby Dick features detailed descriptions of whale hunting and whale oil extraction as well as beautiful, incisive writing on race, class, religion, art, and society. The story, loosely based on a real whaling shipwreck, features the unforgettable, vengeful Captain Ahab, who obsessively hunts a great white whale who bit his leg off below the knee.
title: Moby Dick
titlecomplete: Moby Dick
characters: Tashtego, Pippin ("Pip"), Elijah, Peleg, Ishmael, Aunt Charity, Perth, Queequeg, Starbuck, Peter Coffin, Moby Dick, Bildad, Captain Ahab, Flask, Mapple Priest, Dough-boy, Fedallah, Mrs Hussey, Daggoo, Fleece, Stubb
genres: Classics, Adventure, American, Novels, Classic Literature, Historical Fiction, Literature, Audiobook, 19th Century, Fiction
ratings_count: 545076
places: Pacific Ocean, New Bedford, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, Atlantic Ocean, New England, Nantucket, Massachusetts
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Audie Award
category: Solo Narration - Male, awardedAt: 662716800000
name: Премія імені Максима Рильського
publisher: Penguin Books