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Moby Dick [electronic resource] / Herman Melville.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781470398620 (electronic bk.)
- Physical Description: 1 online resource : multiple file formats.
- Publisher: Salt Lake City : Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, 1991.
Content descriptions
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Summary, etc.: | Its famous opening line, Call me Ishmael, dramatic in its stark simplicity, begins an epic that is widely regarded as the greatest novel ever written by an American. Labeled variously a realistic story of whaling, a romance of unusual adventure and eccentric characters, a symbolic allegory, and a drama of heroic conflict, Moby Dick is first and foremost a great story. It has both the humor and poignancy of a simple sea ballad, as well as the depth and universality of a grand odyssey. When Melville's father died in 1832, the young man's financial security went too. For a while he turned to school-mastering and clerking, but failed to make a sustainable income. In 1840 he signed up on the whaler, Acushnet, out of New Bedford, Massachusetts. He was just 21. A whaler's life turned out to be both arduous and dangerous, and in 1842, Melville deserted ship. Out of this experience and a wealth of printed sources, Melville crafted his masterpiece. |
Additional Physical Form available Note: | Downloadable applications available for access via iOS 4.0+ devices (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch) and Android 2.1+ devices. |
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note: | Applicable license: https://www.gutenberg.org/license |
Source of Description Note: | Title from resource description page (Recorded Books, viewed August 16, 2013). |
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Subject: | Adventure stories. Ahab, Captain (Fictitious character) > Fiction. Allegories. Sea stories. Whales > Fiction. Whaling > Fiction. |
Genre: | Electronic books. |