Moby-Dick; or, The Whale

Name: Moby-Dick; or, The Whale
Author: Herman Melville

by Herman Melville

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Project Gutenberg

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Eugene F. Irey

Release date

1991-05-01

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Public domain in the USA.

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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.

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Whaling -- Fiction Sea stories Psychological fiction Ship captains -- Fiction Adventure stories Mentally ill -- Fiction Ahab, Captain (Fictitious character) -- Fiction Whales -- Fiction Whaling ships -- Fiction

About the author

Herman Melville

1819–1891

Best known for Moby-Dick, he turned years of hard travel at sea into adventurous, deeply original fiction. His work ranges from fast-moving island tales to dark, searching books that grew in reputation long after his lifetime.

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