Moby-Dick

Moby-Dick: or, The Whale
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Author:Herman Melville
Genre:Adventure novel, Fiction, Children's literature
Year published:1851
Number of editions:74

Author of Moby-Dick

Herman Melville
Herman Melville
August 1, 1819 - September 28, 1891

Herman Melville was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist and poet, whose work is often classified as part of the genre of dark romanticism. He is best known for his novel Moby-Dick and novella Billy Budd, the latter of which was published posthumously. His first three books gained...
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Additional works by Herman Melville
BookCopyright DateGenre
The Confidence-Man 1857 Novel
Omoo Fiction
White-Jacket
Israel Potter Fiction
Redburn Fiction
Mardi Fiction
Typee 1846 Autobiographical novel
Pierre: or, The Ambiguities
Billy Budd Children's literature
Spark Notes Moby Dick
Collected Works of Herman Melville
White Jacket
essential Melville
Oeuvres
Great short works of Herman Melville
Pierre ou les ambiguïtés
letters of Herman Melville
Typee, or, A narrative of a four months' residence among the natives of a valley of the Marquesas Islands, or, a peep at Polynesian life
Typee, Billy Budd
Representative selections
33 poèmes
Tales, poems, and other writings
Cetology
Clarel
Mardi, and a voyage thither
Radiobook Cassette/Moby Dick
Four Great American Classics
Redburn, ou, Sa première croisière
Correspondence
A Perfect Prodigy
Two Tales of the Sea
Whale
Five Tales
Chaqueta Blanca
Three Musketeers
Timoleon
Classic Comics
Clarel, a poem and pilgrimage in the Holy Land
Journals
portable Melville
Battle-pieces and aspects of the war
Melville
Poemes De Guerre
Taïpi
Three Short Novels
John Marr and other sailors, with some sea pieces
Adventure Classics Collection
Redburn, White-Jacket, Moby-Dick
Typee Lt
poems of Herman Melville
Romances of Herman Melville
Great American Short Novels
Typee, a narrative of the Marquesas Islands
At the hostelry
Excerpts from Moby Dick
Noveletas by Herman Melville (Paradise and Chimmeney) Lt
Les contes de la véranda
Typee, Omoo, Mardi
thought on book-binding
Works
gay Herman Melville reader
Les îles enchantées
Poems, containing Battle-pieces, John Marr and other sailors, Timoleon and miscellaneous poems
Typee and Billy Budd
Meistererzählungen
Journal up the straits, October 11, 1856-May 5, 1857
Selected Poems of Herman Melville
Short novels
Best of Herman Melville
Father Mapple, his sermon
I and My Chimney
Mobi Dick, ili belyi kit
Rock Rodondo
Taïpi
Arena Bibliothek der Abenteuer, Bd.2, Moby Dick
Omu
Poèmes divers, 1876-1891
Encantadas
Bartelby the Scribe
Shorter novels of Herman Melville
writings
Vareuse blanche
anthology
Journal of a visit to London and the Continent, 1849-1850
Le Grand escroc
Three stories
Typee, a romance of the South seas
On the Frontier
Four Classic American Novels
Narrative of a four months' residence among the natives of a valley of the Marquesas Islands
Benito Cereno
story of Moby Dick
Cuentos Completos
Belyĭ bushlat
Four short novels
On the Slain Collegians
Family correspondence of Herman Melville, 1830-1904, in the Gansovoort-Lansing collection
Pierre
Two Slave Rebellions at Sea
Poems
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Characters in Moby-Dick

Ishmael
Ishmael

Ishmael is the narrator of the 1851 novel Moby-Dick by U.S. author Herman Melville. It is through his eyes and experience that the reader...
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Queequeg
Queequeg

Queequeg is a fictional character presented in the 1851 novel Moby-Dick by U.S. author Herman Melville. He is the first principal character...
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Moby-Dick quotes

  • All ye mast-headers have before now heard me give orders about a white whale. Look ye! d’ye see this Spanish ounce of gold? It is a sixteen dollar piece, men. D’ye see it? Mr. Starbuck, hand me yon top-maul.

    - Captain Ahab

Film adaptations of Moby-Dick

The Sea Beast
The Sea Beast
Release date:January 15, 1926
Directed by:Millard Webb
Genre:Silent film, Indie, Adventure, Black-and-white
Moby Dick
Moby Dick
Release date:September 20, 1930
Directed by:Lloyd Bacon
Genre:Black-and-white, Adventure

Literary Genres

Adventure novel
Adventure novel

The adventure novel is a genre of novels that has adventure, an exciting undertaking involving risk and physical danger, as its main theme. Adventure...
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Fiction
Fiction

Fiction is a branch of literature which deals, in part or in whole, with temporally contrafactual events . In contrast to this is non-fiction, which...
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Children's literature
Children's literature

Children's literature is for readers and listeners up to about age twelve and is often illustrated. The term is used in senses which sometimes...
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