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PublisherBlackstone Audio, Incorporated

ISBN-101433257440

ISBN-139781433257445

eBay Product ID (ePID)70115024

Product Key Features

Book TitleMoby-Dick

Publication Year2009

TopicClassics, General, Action & Adventure, Sea Stories

LanguageEnglish

GenreFiction

AuthorHerman. Melville

Book SeriesClassic Collection Ser.

FormatCompact Disc

Dimensions

Item Length5.7 In.

Item Width5.2 In.

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition22

ReviewsNarrator Anthony Heald not only creates vivid characterizations--Captain Ahab's gruff mania, Starbuck's doubtful sensitivity, the prophet Elijah's visionary shakiness--he also dramatizes the many moods of the Pequod crew and the mercurial ocean itself. Heald's voice has the range of a piano, and he uses it like a virtuoso...Heald's voice bristles dryly with humor or sinks with dread--a range necessary to tell this complex story., Responsive to the shaping forces of his age as only men of passionate imagination are, even Melville can hardly have been fully aware of how symbolical an American hero he had fashioned in Ahab., A work tantalizingly subversive, and yet somehow if not affirming at least forgiving of the blind destructiveness of human nature and of nature itself., Even tenth-grade-me could have appreciated the book as read in Anthony Heald's sardonic, Silence of the Lambs intonation. Generally speaking, witty books seem to have the most to gain in audio form...particularly when read by great voice artists.

Dewey Decimal813/.3

Edition DescriptionUnabridged edition

SynopsisOne of the great works of American literature, Moby-Dick is the epic tale of one man's fight against a force of nature. The outcast youth Ishmael, succumbing to wanderlust during a dreary New England autumn, signs up for passage aboard a whaling ship. The Pequod sails under the command of the one-legged Captain Ahab, who has set himself on a maniacal quest to capture the cunning white whale that robbed him of his leg: Moby-Dick. Capturing life on the sea with robust realism, Melville details the adventures of the colorful crew aboard the ship as Ahab pursues his crusade of revenge, heedless of all cost. This masterfully symbolic drama of the conflict between man and his fate has a special intensity that listeners will not soon forget., Moby-Dick is the epic saga of the fanatical Captain Ahab, who has sworn vengeance on the mammoth white whale who has crippled him. The first American novel to win a place in the literature of the world, it is a masterfully symbolic drama of the conflict between man and his fate., One of the great works of American literature, Moby-Dick is the epic tale of one man's fight against a force of nature. The outcast youth Ishmael, succumbing to wanderlust during a dreary New England autumn, signs up for passage aboard a whaling ship. The Pequod sails under the command of the one-legged Captain Ahab, who has set himself on a monomaniacal quest to capture the cunning white whale that robbed him of his leg: Moby-Dick. Capturing life on the sea with robust realism, Melville details the adventures of the colorful crew aboard the ship as Ahab pursues his crusade of revenge, heedless of all cost. This masterfully symbolic drama of the conflict between man and his fate has a special intensity that listeners will not soon forget.

Number of Pages19 pages