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Moby Dick by Herman Melville is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Moby Dick about?
<b>Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s <i>The Great American Read</i></b><br><br>First published in 1851, Herman Melville’s masterpiece is, in Elizabeth Hardwick’s words, “the greatest novel in American literature.” The saga of Captain Ahab and his monomaniacal pursuit of the white whale remains a peerless adventure story but one full of mythic grandeur, poetic majesty, and symbolic power. Filtered through the consciousness of the novel’s narrator, Ishmael, <i>Moby-Dick</i>
Who reads Moby Dick?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Herman Melville
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Published
- 1851
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780553898101
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Literary Fiction, Sea Stories
- Rating
- 3.33 / 5 (51 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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