Moby Dick - classic
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| Rating | : | 4.11 (866 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1428108335 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 342 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-06-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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Out of this experience and a wealth of printed sources, Melville crafted his masterpiece.. Its famous opening line, "Call me Ishmael," dramatic in its stark simplicity, begins an epic that is widely regarded as the greatest novel ever written by an American. He was just 21. A whaler's life turned out to be both arduous and dangerous, and in 1842, Melville deserted ship. Labeled variously a realistic story of whaling, a romance of unusual adventure and eccentric characters, a symbolic allegory, and a drama of heroic conflict, Moby Dick is first and foremost a great story. For a while he turned to school-mastering and clerking, but failed to make a sustainable income. In 1840 he signed up on the whaler, Acushnet, out of New Bedford, Massachusetts. It has both the humor and poignancy of a simple sea ballad, as well as the depth and universality of a grand odyssey. When Melville's father died in 1832, the young man's financial security went too
Entertaining and enjoyable! Samantha Jane I knew I could never get through reading the novel so I bought the audio version intending to listen to it in my car while out and about. Instead, my husband and I listen to it while traveling in the car on long trips. This turned out to be a great idea because we can both listen to it and it makes the time fly by on long drives. We love it!When it says "performed by Frank Muller" they aren't kidding. He doesn't just narrate, he does the voices of each character and he makes it all sound so interesting. Frank Muller is a true talent at audio books.As for the story, it is a classic with surprisingly humorous parts. Slogging though the bo. "My 7th grade English Lit Class." according to Marian Y Zorger. I did a book report in the 7th grade on this book. My teacher said I wrote with so much passion for this book she kept my report to use as an example on how to write book reports. To this day I have read it almost as many times as Steven King's "The Stand". I will read it again this year soon. I love this book and each time I read it, it reminds me of my teacher, I don't remember her name now, but I do remember how she taught English Lit.. "The Best Audio Moby Dick" according to socal60. I bought this item because Frank Muller was a wonderful reader, particularly of classics like this one. It was actually his reading of this book that made me realize how funny Moby Dick was, as he had with Nabokov's Lolita for me before. He knows exactly how to get the right intonation, and wonderful resonance in his voice to bring out the very best in 'Ishmael's' narration. I discovered this recording in a library version and wanted to be able to listen to it whenever I felt like it. I wish that whoever recorded this version would reissue it so that others could discover or rediscover the joy of Melville by listening to it in Muller's