description: No American masterpiece casts quite as awesome a shadow as Melville's monumental Moby Dick. Mad Captain Ahab's quest for the White Whale is a timeless epic--a stirring tragedy of vengeance and obsession, a searing parable about humanity lost in a universe of moral ambiguity. It is the greatest sea story ever told. Far ahead of its own time, Moby Dick was largely misunderstood and unappreciated by Melville's contemporaries. Today, however, it is indisputably a classic. As D.H. Lawrence wrote, Moby Dick "commands a stillness in the soul, an awe . . . [It is] one of the strangest and most wonderful books in the world." 
title: Moby Dick
titlecomplete: Moby Dick
characters: Ishmael, Peter Coffin, Dough-boy, Aunt Charity, Mrs Hussey, Perth, Elijah, Captain Ahab, Pippin ("Pip"), Fedallah, Starbuck, Tashtego, Queequeg, Daggoo, Flask, Fleece, Stubb, Mapple Priest, Moby Dick, Peleg, Bildad
genres: American, Audiobook, Fiction, Novels, Literature, Historical Fiction, Classics, Adventure, 19th Century, Classic Literature
ratings_count: 545265
places: Nantucket, Massachusetts, New Bedford, Massachusetts, Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, Massachusetts, New England
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Audie Award
category: Solo Narration - Male, awardedAt: 662716800000
name: Премія імені Максима Рильського
publisher: Richard Bentley