num_pages: 594
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.
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: 545108
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: Bantam Classic