Moby Dick

Herman Melville

Synopsis

"Call me Ishmael" says Moby Dick 's protagonist, and with this famous first line launches one of the acclaimed great American novels. Part adventure story, part quest for vengeance, part biological textbook, and part whaling manual, Moby Dick was first published in 1851. The story follows Ishmael as he abandons his humdrum life on shore for an adventure on the waves. Finding the whaler Pequod at harbor in Nantucket, he signs up for a three-year term without meeting the captain of the ship, a mysterious figure called Ahab. It's only well into the voyage that Ahab's thirst for vengeance against the eponymous white whale Moby Dick—and the consequences—become clear. The novel is semi-autobiographical: Herman Melville had had his own experience of whaling, having spent a year and a half aboard a whaling ship and further years traveling the world in the early 1840s. Melville used the knowledge gained from his experiences and wide reading on the subject to furnish Moby Dick with an almost encyclopedic quality. The literary style varies widely, veering from soliloquies and staged scenes to dream sequences to comprehensive lists of ships' provisions, but everything serves to further detail the world that's being painted. Presented here is the New York edition, which was published later than the London edition and reverted numerous changes the original publishers had made, as well as including the initially omitted epilogue. Herman Melville (died 1891) was one of the most distinguished authors of the Victorian age. Their work has endured across generations and continues to be read and studied worldwide. As a work of classic literary fiction, Moby Dick exemplifies the narrative craft and social insight that defined great storytelling of its era. Literary fiction of this period was characterized by careful attention to character psychology, social milieu, and the moral questions that animated public discourse.

Disponible depuis: 19/05/2026.

Longueur d'impression: 744 pages.

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