MobyDick, Herman Melville
List: $17.50 | Sale: $12.60
Club: $8.75

Moby-Dick

Narrator: William Hootkins

Abridged: 6 hr 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 06/16/2005


Synopsis

Moby-Dick is one of the great epics in all of literature. Captain Ahab's hunt for the white whale drives the narrative at a relentless pace, while Ishmael's meditations on whales and whaling, on the sublime indifference of nature, and on the grimy physical details of the extraction of oil provide a reflective counterpoint to the headlong idolatrous quest. Sometimes read as a terrifying study of monomania or as a critical inquiry into the effects of reducing life to symbols, Moby-Dick also offers colorful and often comic glimpses of life aboard a whaling ship.

Reviews