Moby Dick (Naxos AudioBooks)
'Call me Ishmael'. Thus starts the greatest American novel. Melville said himself that he wanted to write 'a mighty book about a mighty theme' and so he did. It is a story of one man's obsessive revenge-journey against the white whale, Moby-Dick, who injured him in an earlier meeting. Woven into...
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'Call me Ishmael'. Thus starts the greatest American novel. Melville said himself that he wanted to write 'a mighty book about a mighty theme' and so he did. It is a story of one man's obsessive revenge-journey against the white whale, Moby-Dick, who injured him in an earlier meeting. Woven into the story of the last journey of The Pequod is a mesh of philosophy, rumination, religion, history and a mass of information about whaling through the ages. This epic story, here presented in unabridged form, receives an equally epic reading from the outstanding American actor William Hootkins.
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Format: audiobook
ISBN:
9789626343586 (9626343583)
ASIN: 9626343583
Publish date: 2005-09-01
Publisher: Naxos Audiobooks
Edition language: English
Category:
Adventure,
Classics,
Novels,
Academic,
School,
Literature,
American,
Historical Fiction,
Classic Literature,
19th Century,
Fiction
Other reviewers speak much more eloquently about this book than I can. So I'll try to be kind of brief in my observations about this book.1) You have a donut and a donut hole. The story of Ahab and Moby Dick is the donut hole. Herman Melville, clearly wishing to write a non-fiction account of th...
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