num_pages: 483
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
titlecomplete: Moby Dick
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: 545119
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: Wordsworth Editions, Limited