TY - BOOK AU - Melville,Herman TI - Moby Dick; Or, The Whale AV - PS PY - 2001/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Whaling -- Fiction KW - Sea stories KW - Psychological fiction KW - Ship captains -- Fiction KW - Adventure stories KW - Mentally ill -- Fiction KW - Ahab, Captain (Fictitious character) -- Fiction KW - Whales -- Fiction KW - Whaling ships -- Fiction N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moby-Dick; Project Gutenberg eBook #15 is believed to have the highest quality of the three editions of this eBook in the Project Gutenberg collection. #2701 and #2489 are the others. In addition, there is a computer-generated audio eBook, #9147, and a human audio performance, #28794; Release date is 2001-07-01; Daniel Lazarus, Jonesey, and David Widger; Original publication data not identified N2 - "Moby Dick; Or, The Whale" by Herman Melville is an epic novel published in 1851. Sailor Ishmael narrates the obsessive quest of Captain Ahab, who commands the whaling ship Pequod in pursuit of Moby Dick, a giant white sperm whale that destroyed his leg. Ahab's monomaniacal hunt for vengeance drives the ship and its diverse crew across the world's oceans, blending realistic whaling details with profound explorations of good, evil, fate, and human nature in this cornerstone of American literature. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2701 ER -