Moby Dick; Or, The Whale

Whaling -- Fiction

Moby Dick; Or, The Whale

by Herman Melville

Published: 2001

Publisher: Project Gutenberg

Language: en

Identifier: http://www.gutenberg.org/2701

Subjects: Whaling -- Fiction; Sea stories; Psychological fiction; Ship captains -- Fiction; Adventure stories; Mentally ill -- Fiction; Ahab, Captain (Fictitious character) -- Fiction; Whales -- Fiction; Whaling ships -- Fiction

Herman Melville’s classic sea novel follows Ishmael, a young sailor who joins the whaling ship Pequod under the command of Captain Ahab. What begins as a whaling voyage becomes an obsessive hunt for the great white whale Moby Dick, the creature that maimed Ahab and now dominates his imagination. Blending adventure, philosophical reflection, maritime detail, and psychological drama, the novel explores fate, revenge, authority, madness, and humanity’s struggle against nature.

Source: Project Gutenberg

Text sourced from Project Gutenberg ebook #2701.