

Moby Dick
Author: Herman Melville
Narrator: Stewart Wills
Unabridged: 24 hr 19 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Engage Books
Published: 07/23/2020
Categories: Fiction, Classic, Sea Stories, Action & Adventure
Synopsis
Moby Dick is considered as an outstanding work of Romanticism. The product of a year and a half of writing, the book draws on Melville’s experience at sea, on his reading in whaling literature, and on literary inspirations such as Shakespeare and the Bible. The detailed and realistic descriptions of whale hunting and of extracting whale oil, as well as life aboard ship among a culturally diverse crew, are mixed with exploration of class and social status, good and evil, and the existence of God. In addition to narrative prose, Melville uses styles and literary devices ranging from songs, poetry and catalogs to Shakespearean stage directions, soliloquies and asides.