Moby Dick, or, The whale, Herman Melville
Type
Contributor
1
Creator
1
Genre
6
Subject
26
- Whales
- Revenge -- Fiction
- Sea stories
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder -- Fiction
- Psychological fiction
- Ahab, Captain (Fictitious character)
- Ahab, Captain (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
- Fiction
- Mentally ill -- Fiction
- Shipwrecks -- Fiction
- Action and adventure fiction
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder
- Shipwrecks
- Electronic books
- Ship captains
- Whaling
- Whaling ships -- Fiction
- Sea fiction
- Whaling ships
- Revenge
- Whaling -- Fiction
- Ship captains -- Fiction
- Mentally ill
- Whales -- Fiction
- Sailors
- Sailors -- Fiction
Content
1
Label
Moby Dick, or, The whale, Herman Melville
Language
eng
Main title
Moby Dick
Nature of contents
dictionaries
Responsibility statement
Herman Melville
Sub title
or, The whale
Summary
The itinerant sailor Ishmael begins a voyage on the whaling ship Pequod whose captain, Ahab, wishes to exact revenge upon the whale Moby-Dick, who destroyed his last ship and took his leg. As they search for the savage white whale, Ishmael questions all aspects of life. The story is woven in complex, lyrical language and uses many theatrical forms, such as stage direction and soliloquy. It is considered the exemplar of American Romanticism, and one of the greatest American novels of all time
resource.variantTitle
Whale