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Moby Dick, or, The whale

In New Bedford, Connecticut in the 1800s, a group of seamen board the Pequod, captained by Ahab. They know they're out to harpoon whales; what they don't realize is that Ahab once lost a leg to the magnificent white whale Moby Dick, and that he'll risk anything to get back at the animal that maimed him ... including himself and every member of his crew.

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  • "Moby Dick, or, The whale"@it
  • "Belyĭ kit"
  • "George Kennedy reads Moby Dick"@en
  • "Mobi Dik"
  • "Whale"
  • "Whale"@en
  • "Moby Dick"@he

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  • "A masterpiece of storytelling, this epic saga pits Ahab, a brooding and fanatical sea captain, against the great white whale that crippled him. In telling the tale of Ahab's passion for revenge and the fateful voyage that ensued, Melville produced far more than the narrative of a hair-raising journey; Moby-Dick is a tale for the ages that sounds the deepest depths of the human soul. Interspersed with graphic sketches of life aboard a whaling vessel, and a wealth of information on whales and nineteenth-century whaling, Melville's greatest work presents an imaginative and thrilling picture of life at sea, as well as a portrait of heroic determination. The author's keen powers of observation and firsthand knowledge of shipboard life (he served aboard a whaler himself) were key ingredients in crafting a maritime story that dramatically examines the conflict between man and nature. A masterpiece of storytelling and symbolic realism, this thrilling maritime adventure and epic saga pits Ahab, a brooding and vengeful sea captain, against the great white whale that crippled him and came to dominate his life. But more than just the tale of a hair-raising voyage, Melville's riveting story passionately probes the human soul. A literary classic first published in 1851, Moby-Dick remains among the most highly acclaimed novels of the sea and a powerful account of the ultimate human struggle."
  • "In New Bedford, Connecticut in the 1800s, a group of seamen board the Pequod, captained by Ahab. They know they're out to harpoon whales; what they don't realize is that Ahab once lost a leg to the magnificent white whale Moby Dick, and that he'll risk anything to get back at the animal that maimed him ... including himself and every member of his crew."@en
  • "A simple retelling of the story of Ishmael, a young seaman who joins the crew of the fanatical Captain Ahab in pursuit of the white whale Moby Dick."@en
  • "The nineteenth-century tale of life aboard a New England whaling ship whose captain is obsessed with the pursuit of a huge white whale."@en
  • "A realistic account of a whaling voyage in which Captain Ahab tries to capture the white whale."
  • "Moby-Dick is one of the great epics in all of literature. Captain Ahab's hunt for the white whale drives the narrative at a relentless pace, while Ishmael's meditations on whales and whaling, on the sublime indifference of nature, and on the grimy physical details of the extraction of oil provide a reflective counterpoint to the headlong idolatrous quest. Sometimes read as a terrifying study of monomania or as a critical inquiry into the effects of reducing life to symbols, Moby-Dick also offers colorful and often comic glimpses of life aboard a whaling ship. For the first time, the authoritative editions of works by American novelists, poets, scholars, and essayists collected in the hardcover volumes of The Library of America are being published singly in a series of handsome paperback books. A distinguished writer has contributed an introduction for each volume, which also includes a chronology of the author's life an essay on the text, and notes. From the ..."@en
  • "Bewerking van het beroemde boek, waarin de kapitein zijn schip en bemanning op het spel zet bij zijn jacht op een witte walvis."
  • "A classic of the sea, telling of the pursuit of Moby Dick, the white whale who defied capture."@en

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  • "Adventure fiction"@en
  • "Adventure stories"@en
  • "Psychological fiction"@en
  • "Sea stories"@en
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Livres électroniques"
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@he
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Criticism, interpretation, etc"@en

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  • "Moby Dick oder der Wal"
  • "Paekkyŏng"
  • "Moby Dick, of De walvis"
  • "Moby Dick Kapitän Ahab jagt d. weissen Wal"
  • "Mobi Dik, ili, Belyĭ kit roman"
  • "Moby Dick, or, The whale"@en
  • "<&gt"@he
  • "Moby Dick, or, The whale. Ed. C.C. Walcutt"@en
  • "Moby Dick : or, The whale"@en
  • "Moby-Dick"
  • "Moby-Dick"@en
  • "Moby Dick la ballena blanca"
  • "Moby Dick la ballena blanca"@es
  • "Moby Dick ili Bijeli Kit"
  • "Mobi Diḳ"
  • "Moby-Dick, or, The Whale"@en
  • "מובי דיק"
  • "Moby-Dick, or, The whale"@en
  • "Moby-Dick, or, The whale"
  • "Mobi Dik, ili, Belyĭ kit : roman"
  • "白鯨"
  • "Hakugei"
  • "Mobi Dik, ili belyj kit : roman"
  • "Moby Dick : la ballena blanca"
  • "Moby Dick, of De witte walvis"
  • "Moby-Dick or, The whale"
  • "Moby Dick, or, The Whale"@en
  • "Moby Dick ili Bijeli kit"
  • "Moby Dick, ili bijeli kit"
  • "Moby Dick ; or, The whale"
  • "Moby Dick oder Der Wal : mit e. Sammlung von Walfang-Drucken"
  • "Moby Dick"@it
  • "Moby Dick"@en
  • "Moby Dick"
  • "Moby Dick"@es

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