num_pages: 495
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
titlecomplete: Moby Dick
characters: Peter Coffin, Aunt Charity, Flask, Fleece, Mapple Priest, Fedallah, Stubb, Ishmael, Tashtego, Peleg, Daggoo, Mrs Hussey, Elijah, Starbuck, Dough-boy, Captain Ahab, Pippin ("Pip"), Moby Dick, Perth, Queequeg, Bildad
genres: Fiction, American, Adventure, Classic Literature, Literature, Classics, Novels, 19th Century, Historical Fiction, Audiobook
ratings_count: 545088
places: New England, Atlantic Ocean, Massachusetts, 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: The Reader's Digest Association