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Moby Dick, or the Whale

Moby Dick, or the Whale

Herman Melville

HörbücherEnglisch24 Std. 38 Min.

Call me Ishmael, the narrator begins, and he tells how he signed on to the whaling ship Pequod out of Nantucket with his friend Queequeg, a harpooner from…

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Autor
Herman Melville
Gelesen von
Stewart Wills
Dauer
24:37:50
Teile
44
Sprache
Englisch
Quelle
LibriVox · Internet Archive
Läuft geradeChapter 000: Etymology and Extracts
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Kapitel (44)

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Call me Ishmael, the narrator begins, and he tells how he signed on to the whaling ship Pequod out of Nantucket with his friend Queequeg, a harpooner from the South Seas. At sea the captain, Ahab, reveals that the voyage has a single purpose: to hunt down the white whale that took his leg. Between the chase and the final three-day battle, Melville fills the book with everything about whales and whaling, from anatomy to the boiling of blubber, and with the sermons, songs and soliloquies of a crew bound to one man's revenge.

Hintergrund und Bedeutung

Herman Melville, who had sailed on a whaler himself, published the novel in 1851; it sold poorly in his lifetime and is now counted among the greatest American books. Stewart Wills reads the whole of it alone, nearly twenty-five hours.

This is a LibriVox recording, read by volunteers and dedicated to the public domain; its audio files are kept by the Internet Archive, which plays and serves them here. Public-domain status differs from country to country, so check the law where you live before republishing it. Haben Sie Rechte an diesem Werk? Entfernung beantragen

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