Rank 65 of 100
Moby-Dick
Also known as Moby Dick, The Whale
Synopsis
Ishmael signs onto a whaling ship whose captain has one errand: find the white whale that took his leg. Melville stuffs the voyage with sermons, anatomy lessons, and jokes, then lets Ahab’s private war pull the crew into water that does not care about their meanings.
Synopses are original catalog copy written for Every Book Ever, not publisher blurbs.
Catalogue card
- Year
- 1851
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Form
- Novel
- Genre
- Adventure, Literary
- Audience
- Adult
- Era
- 19th century
- Movement
- American Renaissance
- Series
- —
- Length
- About 635 pages
- Reported copies
- A classic that sold poorly at first and never left the syllabus
- Kind
- Fiction