num_pages: 573
description: Written by one of America's greatest authors, Moby-Dick is a work of tremendous power and depth-one of world literature's great poetic epics. In the novel, published in 1851 after sixteen months of writing, Herman Melville recounts the Promethean quest of Captain Ahab, who, having lost a leg in a earlier battle with White Whale, is determined to catch the beast and destroy it. By the time readers meet Ahab, he is a vengeful, crazed, and terror-provoking figure, for Moby Dick has come to represent for him all the evil in the world.The relentless voyage of Ahab and his crew, a finely etched group of weird and wonderful characters who seem both flesh-and-blood individuals and symbolic of the varying qualities of men, becomes a masterful drama of life at sea. The drama is made more fascinating by Melville's eloquent style-a combination of the journalistic, colloquial, and poetic-and the themes and subjects he pursues-whales and whaling; mean's need for love and comradeship; and the fury of Ahab for the whale.Through realistic storytelling, symbolic allegory, and allusive and figurative language, Melville achieves in Moby-dicka special intensity that readers will marvel at, and not soon forget.
language: English
title: Moby Dick, or The Whale
titlecomplete: Moby Dick, or The Whale
characters: Captain Ahab, Fedallah, Flask, Aunt Charity, Mrs Hussey, Pippin ("Pip"), Peter Coffin, Moby Dick, Ishmael, Peleg, Perth, Bildad, Daggoo, Fleece, Queequeg, Tashtego, Mapple Priest, Elijah, Starbuck, Dough-boy, Stubb
genres: Audiobook, American, Historical Fiction, Novels, Literature, Classic Literature, Classics, Adventure, Fiction, 19th Century
ratings_count: 545065
places: New England, Nantucket, Massachusetts, Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, New Bedford, Massachusetts, Massachusetts
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Audie Award
category: Solo Narration - Male, awardedAt: 662716800000
name: Премія імені Максима Рильського
publisher: Northwestern University Press