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.
language: English
title: Moby-Dick or the whale
titlecomplete: Moby-Dick or the whale
characters: Queequeg, Peleg, Stubb, Starbuck, Fedallah, Daggoo, Flask, Moby Dick, Mapple Priest, Peter Coffin, Bildad, Pippin ("Pip"), Dough-boy, Perth, Ishmael, Fleece, Mrs Hussey, Captain Ahab, Tashtego, Aunt Charity, Elijah
genres: Literature, American, Audiobook, Classics, Adventure, Novels, 19th Century, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Classic Literature
ratings_count: 545135
places: Atlantic Ocean, Massachusetts, New England, New Bedford, Massachusetts, Nantucket, Massachusetts, Pacific Ocean
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Audie Award
category: Solo Narration - Male, awardedAt: 662716800000
name: Премія імені Максима Рильського
publisher: International Thomson Publishing